NBC's "Nurses" was Miami-based sitcom set in the third floor nurses station of Community Medical Center, just around the corner from The Golden Girls and Empty Nest.  The station was manned by five hardworking nurses: Annie, wife, mother, and head nurse; cynical Sandy; naive, ditzy Julie; immigrant Gina; and male nurse Greg. Others on the floor were grumpy Dr. Riskin, Paco the sees-all-tells-all orderly, and Hank, a financially strapped good-guy doctor who eventually began a relationship with Gina.

The nurses and doctors work on a ward in a hospital in Miami.  The cast changed over the different series but a core remained. Annie is the senior nurse, Sandy is/was the sarcastic one (she left after a couple of series,) Gina is from South America and is in love with Dr. Hank Kaplan a bitter divorcee with no money since said divorce. Julie is the air head with her heart in the right place and Paco is the orderly. There was also a female doctor named Dr. Riskin the senior doctor.

In later series, the writers introduced Casey MaCafee (the new administrator) and Jack Trenton (a millionaire doing community service) presumably in an attempt to attract viewers back to the series, given the actors employed to play the characters.  The irony being that it was probably better before their introduction.

The Cast
Nurse Annie Roland..........Arnetia Walker
Nurse Sandy Miller (1991-1993)..........Stephanie Hodge
Nurse Julie Milbury..........Mary Jo Keenen
Greg Vincent (1991-1992)..........Jeff Altman
Nurse Gina Cuevas..........Ada Maris
Dr. Hank Kaplan..........Kip Gilman
Paco Ortiz..........Carlos Lacamara
Dr. Riskin (1991-1992)..........Florence Stanley
Luke Fitzgerald (1992-1993)..........Markus Flanagan
Jack Trenton (1992-1994)..........David Rasche
Casey MaCafee (1993-1994)..........Loni Anderson

Best Episodes
"Eat Something"
Air date: 2/15/92
In this episode, Annie Roland (Arnetia´s character), lost her faith in God after her childhood pastor died in a bizarre accident at the hospital after being spared from a horrible case of a horrible disease.
Annie regains her faith after she tells a doctor who is helping a patient who has just collapsed, "To look at his eyes". This statement saves the man´s life.  Annie knew to look at the man´s eyes because her childhood pastor told her that you can always look at a person´s eyes and see what is going on with them because the eyes are the window to the soul.
Also in this episode, one of the other nurses struggles with finding her own religious identity.

"Kind, Kompassionate, and Karing"
Air Date: 11/2/91
In this episode, Annie is faced with racism from a Klu Klux Klan member.  Annie asks her best friend and fellow nurse, Sandy to be his nurse. The klansman comes out looking for his nurse and he almost collapses and Annie tries to help him and his pushes her back and says he doesn´t need any help. A few seconds later, he collapses. Annie has to perform CPR on him to revive him.
Annie receives a lot of flack from other people about what she has done.  She tells everyone that she was just doing her job. The klansman later on needs a nurse and there is no one else at the nurses station.  Annie goes in to see what he wants. He gets mad and tells her to leave the room. Annie almost leaves, but she turns back to him and says some very profound things to him, one statement being, "...The other day you came up against your worst nightmare. You were helpless and the only person who could help you was me, a black woman. Fear me, you probably always will. Fear you, never again."

"Dead Nurse"
Air Date: 10/26/91
In this episode, Annie tells the Managing Nurse to drop dead, which a few hours later she does.  Annie feels responsible for the nurses death. All of the other nurses tell Annie that it is her fault for killing the dead nurse.  Gina is quite adamant about Annie´s power to speak those things that are not into existence.
In the remainder of the episode, the nurses go to the dead nurse´s funeral and discover some things about themselves and each other.  Sandy slept with the dead woman´s fiancee. Annie has a habit of holding grudges. Julie is spending too much time being scared.  And a lot more.

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