The series Nina, whose sixth season has been broadcast on France 2 since May 26, 2021, is it based on medical facts?
Yes. The creator of the series, Alain Robillard, works with a team of doctors to write the scripts: they are mainly doctors from the Villeneuve Saint Georges hospital, where the episodes are filmed.
During filming, referents (doctors or nurses) can also intervene: a hypnosis practitioner has already given me some advice on how to enrich my character. The idea is to approach different subjects through a medical prism… even if the series sometimes takes liberties with reality.
Since 2015, you have played Nina, a nurse at the Madeleine Brès hospital: has this role changed your vision of the profession?
I have always had a huge admiration for nurses. My mother and my aunt exercised this profession and they lived it as a real priesthood: they gave a lot and invested themselves enormously. I remember that in the evening, they often returned bloodless from work, but that they left the next morning full of energy. I believe that they drew their daily motivation from the act of concretely helping patients.
Clearly, it is a profession that requires courage and requires a certain vocation. I know it: I couldn’t have been a nurse.
Do you think that the Nina series, whose sixth season will also be the last, will give rise to vocations?
Above all, I would like this series to shine the spotlight on the nursing profession: usually, on television, it is rather the doctors who are highlighted, while the male and female nurses are passed over in silence, even devalued.
However, keep in mind that Nina is a fictional nurse: she has time to settle in the rooms to listen to the patients… In real life, nurses barely have time to take care of them, they run constantly, sometimes with extremely difficult working conditions. Perhaps through the series, by arousing public interest in nurses in France, we will manage to get things moving.
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