National Nurses Day: 3 reasons why Chicago Med’s nurses are the best

2) They go above and beyond their jobs

The great thing about Chicago Med‘s nurses is that they’re not written as “just nurses.” They don’t exist solely to help out on everyone else’s cases. Both April and Maggie have their own stories and their own patients, and it’s fairly common for them to exercise an uncommon level of effort when it comes to the people under their care.

We’ve seen both of them go far beyond their job descriptions to help patients. Maggie nearly lost her job in “Devil In Disguise” after she had stepped in the previous week to perform a procedure when a doctor was not available. Legally, she shouldn’t have done it, but her doing so saved the patient’s life—making all the difference.

Just a few weeks ago in “An Inconvenient Truth” there was April working with Dr. Sarah Reese (Rachel DiPillo) to find a patient’s son, so that they could be reunited before it was too late. She didn’t explicitly have to do that, but she did because she knows quality of care is sometimes about more than just someone’s physical well-being.

And those are just examples from this season. There have been other times, whether it’s Maggie spending time with the patients who don’t have anyone else in Chicago Med season 2 or how April knows patients by name and looks out for them, where our nurses make that extra effort. To them, what we’d consider extra is normal, and everyone is better off because of it.