What do they expect?

Something caught my eye in the newspaper the other day.

An article pinpointing the consistently high number of student nurses dropping out of their courses mid way through the training.
All because they begin with the impression that ward life is exactly like Holby City or Casualty; sexy, glamorous, non-stop action, blood, guts, and hot doctors.

What do they expect exactly?

TV shows like Holby or Casualty are incredibly entertaining (and as Casualty is one of my fave programmes, I wouldn't change much about it) but they are quite often unrealistic.
Indeed, there are elements which mimic that of real life; many procedures are close to accurate, and I even found one episode of Casualty which came into play the next day in A&E.
So yes, such shows have to hold some realism to be believable, but surely people realise there is a boundary to them?
After all, hot, young doctors are rarely seen on the wards. At least where I've been anyway.

In case anyone is wondering, or hasn't realised this so far, nursing is very hard work.
People may complain about "lazy" nurses hanging around their stations chatting or drinking coffee, but seriously, this is normally during visiting hours when staff give patients and relatives some time together.
For the other 8 hours of the day, they dish out meds and wash patients, feed patients, wash and change beds, assist doctors if need be, transfer patients to other wards, change dressings, fill in bountiful piles of paperwork, and if the ward is full, will grab cups of tea when and where they can.
Being a student, I understand that behind what media and TV depicts is very different, and a slight shock to the system - especially when your expectations are fuelled by fictitious programmes on the telly.
Thanks to my previous care assistant job, I had some cynicism built up already.

So far in A&E, I have found that there are few cute junior doctors or nurses, there is little time for emotional bonds with patients where you share a moment of realisation for your current predicaments, and (in DGH at least) the paramedics don't come bashing in through swing doors announcing patient details at the tops of their voices.

I'll agree with the statement given by some knowledgeable nursing wifie in the paper; students must be given realistic views of nursing to ensure they will continue. People can't enter into the student nurse world with expectations of love, glamour and continual excitement. And that there will be attractive, sexy doctors to swoon over.

Here's an example; I catheterised two patients today, both of which were successful but, let's face it, it's not a very fine job to do.
You don't see anything like that on the telly now, do you?