The nurse, Netflix series: plot and true story of Christina Aisturp

L‘nurse better in the department but on which they convey suspicions, those of a newcomer, still too inexperienced to be taken into consideration. She and the idea that a hospital goes from a place of salvation to a theater of horrors. This is the summary of the Danish series – only 4 episodes and based on a true story – which immediately captured the attention on Netflix.

The nursethe plot

Pernille Kuzrmann (Fanny Louise Bernth) is a newly graduated nurse, who is employed at the Danish hospital Nykøbing Falster. He has no experience, but wants to learn and is trained by Christina Aistrup (Josephine Park), the best nurse in the entire ER. The first shift together is enlightening: Christina saves a patient from cardiac arrest. She is the heroine of the night and the day after.

Pernille is fascinated by it, but she’s not the only one. Everyone in the hospital venerates her: doctors, nurses, managers. She is a tireless worker, capable of intervening suddenly and saving lives. With Pernille they form a close couple and are nicknamed the dreamteam.

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The agreement is proceeding at full speed until some patients admitted for mild controls die of cardiac arrest. Pernille cannot understand it, while Christina dismisses the matter by asserting that, all in all, it is normal for it to happen. Neither colleagues nor doctors notice the deathswhile Pernille wants to see clearly.

The series finale

He watches Christina and grows more and more in her the suspicion that it is the colleague who causes the cardiac arrestby administering the wrong drugs. She tries to talk to the personnel manager about it, but she is turned away. Christina has years of experience and is the best resource in the department. No one can afford to question her work.

She tries with some fellow nurses, but doesn’t get great results. He also makes an attempt with Niels Lunden (Peter Zandersen), the doctor with whom he has started an affair, but the result is a furious quarrel. Pernille does not give up and continues to investigate, until she finds objective evidence of what she suspects. And, encouraged at this point by Lunden, he collects the necessary evidence and reports his colleague to the police.

The nursebased on a true story

The series is based on a true story, told in the book by Kristin Corfixen, published in 2022. The facts date back to 2015, when nurse Pernille Kurzmann turned to the authorities. A story that shocked Danish public opinion and dragged it along Christina Aisturp in the dock.

In particular, the woman was charged with four attempted murders, for which she was sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment. In the episodes, Pernille finds the agenda on which her colleague writes down all the deaths that occurred during her shifts and we arrive at 22. However, her guilt has not been proven in this regard, even if other causes of death cannot be excluded.

The nurse focuses on the two opposing personalities of Pernille and Christina. On the one hand, there is an impeccable professional, who hides a killer soul behind her strong and, at the same time, human armor. On the other, a novice woman, who exposes herself in order to prove the truthin an effort to save patients from his clutches.

Both intense, they convey pathos to their characters in a climax that comes only in the final minutes. It is a crescendo, which makes the series take on the nuances of a thriller. And it makes you breathe a sigh of relief just before the end credits. A bittersweet ending for a story that, also due to the indifference of others, could have claimed dozens and dozens of other victims.

Characterizing the battle of the nurse is not only the horror perpetrated by Aisturpbut above all the lack of courage of those who could and should have known and did nothing. To this day Pernille Kurzmann is the only nurse still working in the same department. All the others have changed jobs.

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