While very interesting and informative, the series suffers from not enough footage. The same scenes - even dramatic reconstructions - are being repeated five and more times throughout the episode, with some scenes taken from previous episodes. As a result - each episode feels like dragging on and if we cut out all repetitions, it would shrink to 15 minutes.
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Under rate nursing knowledge
joyhv4 September 2017
I find this documentary interesting although I wonder why the director hasn't used a nurse as a professional adviser.For the events viewed having a nurses perspective with their standards and exactly what they do would have been more grounded than having a doctor (although well spoken and informative) give a nurses view...physicians do not do our job they are not the expert in our processes. I cannot speak for other countries but in Canada nurses are autonomous from physicians we have our own standards and an excellent knowledge of science that we apply.We work closely with physicians but also lab pharmacy..physio and other professionals...nurses coordinate this and together with all the team support the physician in their decisions. Physicians rely heavily on nursing knowledge and assessment...caring is something ALL professions do. To validate nurses who kill..have a nurse's perspective not a physicians.
Tedious, repetitive, lots of problems
lilikoian2 August 2018
The first 3 episodes involve cases that you can find better video documentaries of on YouTube.
Lots of other gripes: 1. The consulting MD for all the episodes has an unnerving habit of smiling while she's discussing horror stories. I can't even watch her.
2. What a tedious, repetitive mess overall. Could have been condensed to 20 mins. In fact, just skip forward till the last 20 mins and save your time.
3. For a series on "Nurses Who Kill", why aren't any nurses consulted? As another reviewer pointed out, we could have provided a much better and more informative commentary on the actions of our fellow nurses.
Lots of other gripes: 1. The consulting MD for all the episodes has an unnerving habit of smiling while she's discussing horror stories. I can't even watch her.
2. What a tedious, repetitive mess overall. Could have been condensed to 20 mins. In fact, just skip forward till the last 20 mins and save your time.
3. For a series on "Nurses Who Kill", why aren't any nurses consulted? As another reviewer pointed out, we could have provided a much better and more informative commentary on the actions of our fellow nurses.
Repetitive, less information
relmafurtado29 April 2021
All the episodes had similar content. Very repetitive, each episode had same sentences used over and over again which makes the documentary kind of boring. More information would be better and would be more interesting for viewers because this documentary had a great potential to be better in terms of real footages used as even the footages were repetitive. They didn't use a single nurse for her/his experience and views on this.
Informative for Patients
ivananagyfife11 March 2020
repetitive
jaynestrange8 November 2019
The reconstructions segments for the episodes about American killers were clearly not well-researched. At one point they have their actress wearing a British nurses' uniform instead of scrubs like a nurse would in the US, and some 'Texans' have accents that sound much more like they're from Georgia.
It really felt like they were trying to stretch out to fill a time slot too, repeating bits of interview footage over & over.
"specialists"
elsahagg6 January 2020
They talk about how nurses should and shouldn't be but they sound like none of them has ever met a nurse. Most of the "specialists" they speak to their specialties have nothing to do with the subjects they're speaking about.
Teaches a good lesson in the medical system
Arianrhod_B16 May 2020
I found this series on Netflix and couldn't stop watching it ever since. It's very interesting and also scary to see how some people are capable of murdering the most vulnerable just to satisfy their egos. And you get to see what's on their minds too; we learn about their lives, childhood, and how they acted during their work. I'm also addicted to the intro music and hope they'll have a soundtrack somewhere.
My verdict: watch it to see how far some people can go to live in a fantasy and justify it to themselves, also how the authorities failed to do research when the alarms were raised in the first place.
Misleading title
ezhovaelena-6575324 September 2021
Warning: Spoilers
As a Registered Nurse , I have found that the title of this series are 100% misleading and somewhat offence. Out of 10 episodes only 2 were about nurses who killed their spouses using their training. The rest of the episodes portrayed people who may have some training (not nursing training !!! As it very different from paramedic or physiotherapist or social worker trainings - thus it was completely inappropriate to say that EMT has nursing skills) or no training at all (like caregivers who are mostly random people with no education or training). I felt that authors degraded my knowledge and expertise as they fail to recognize the difference between any random person with no special knowledge, skills or expertise in nursing and nactual nurses who are well trained professionals with quit extensive scope of practice and responsibilities. Those series implied that nurses are a people who dont necessary need any education and special skills -which is completely wrong!
At least three of the nurses in Series 1 are almost surely innocent
gill-1133622 March 2022
What do Colin Norris, Daniela Poggiali, and Ben Geen have in common? They are almost certainly innocent, according to many scholars and experts who have studied these cases closely. Miscarriages of justice do happen. They happen rather often (a) in the UK, (b) in serial killer nurse cases. These cases are fortunately very rare, but also very challenging. Courts must first decide whether or not there actually were any murders at all, and only if so, who was the perpetrator. Typically some surprising incident combined with pre-existing gossip about a nurse who stands our in the crowd, in a hospital which actually is failing due to bad management, understaffing etc, triggers a witch hunt and a witch trial. Forensic research is not done by police investigators buy by hospital specialists and managers, who give the information to police and to the courts, and who are needed to interpret that information. It's a recipe for disaster. Daniela Poggiali (Italy) has been acquitted after a retrial. The toxicological and statistical evidence against her was pure garbage.
Nurses who kill is not about nurses.
ruggerd-794609 April 2023
Many of the episodes of "nurses" who kill have nothing to do with "nurses". There is not such profession as a "carer" and EMT's and other ancillary healthcare professionals are NOT nurses and cannot and DO NOT provide "nursing care". Whoever made this trainwreck doesn't understand the healthcare system at all so it's unlikely the information is nothing more than trite melodrama. Stopped watching after 2 minutes when they kept referring to non nurses providing "nursing care".
I'm not sure why it's so hard to get this right. It's not a complicated concept to understand who is and isn't a "nurse".
I'm not sure why it's so hard to get this right. It's not a complicated concept to understand who is and isn't a "nurse".
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