New TV Show Puts Nursing Center Stage
June 09, 2009
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After years of shows focusing on the lives of doctors, TNT is launching Hawthorne on June 16, focusing on the character of Christina Hawthorne, the chief nursing officer at Richmond Trinity Hospital in Virginia. The show will star Jada Pinkett Smith, the wife of Will Smith.
Glen Mazzara, an executive producer for Hawthorne and former hospital administrator, told the St. Petersburg Times that nurses are compelling characters because they are the face of health care.
"If you've ever been a patient in a hospital, you see your physician for just a few minutes every day." Mazzara said. "The rest of the time, you're treated by nurses."
The show will be the first with a black nurse as its lead since 1968, when Diahann Carroll starred as the lead in a show called Julia.
Pinkett Smith, who is an executive producer as well as the star, says nurses wear many hats in their work.
"Nurses have to be psychologists, they have to be wives, they have to be girlfriends, they have to be husbands," she said. "Nurses are patient advocates."
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