On June 15, 2010, Sony Pictures will release the first season of HawthoRNe starring Jada Pinkett Smith on DVD. The TNT popular drama features Christina Hawthorne RN (Pinkett Smith) a recently-widowed nursing director in her struggles with her teenage daughter, bureaucratic hospital administrators, egotistical doctors and burned out nurses. The series also stars: * Jada Pinkett-Smith * Joanna Cassidy * Michael Vartan * Christina Moore * David Julian Hirsh * Suleka Mathew * Hannah Hodson To celebrate the release, Sony Pictures has offered special bundled DVD deals (including the HawthoRNe DVD) to hospitals and nursing websites for their lending library as a promotion. …
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HawthoRNe
After the disaster of Nurse Jackie on Showtime, it was a relief to see nurses being portrayed as strong professionals who have human issues to deal with, but aren’t always drugged up, whacked out, sex addicts! Jada Pinkett Smith portrays Chief Nursing Officer Christina Hawthorne RN who is a strong patient advocate and mentor to a staff of nurses who are representative of many of the nurses we have all known from new grads to the cocky ones who get themselves into trouble trying to buck the system. Hawthorne is on TNT on Tuesday nights at 9/8 C. “Am I going to cry everyday?” asks the young new grad. Hawthorne…