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BASED ON A TRUE STORY

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Stauning!

Boy.

Stauning!

Calm down.

Get down.

I ran into some of the guys down at the docks,

and you know what they're like.

They went on and on.

They always want just another drink.

And time flies.

Well, now what have I got here?

Yeah, calm down.

I'll be all right.

Just a minute.

Well, it's a top-level match.

I played professionally for a number of years,

but I'm telling you this is a whole different league.

So do you think Vejgård can beat Hobro?

No, I don't think so. Hobro is clear favourite.

They're gonna have to be.

The game begins, then after three minutes,

the Superliga player breaks through the defence.

Scores an early goal.

But then the underdogs surprise everyone and fight back.

They equalise at 12 minutes.

Then at 28 minutes, they're ahead 2-1.

Arne.

Easy now.

It's just a bit further.

He smokes too much. He drinks too much.

He has a poor diet.

He doesn't exercise.

Apart from that, there's nothing wrong with him.

We've hooked him up on an IV to give him some nutrients.

He probably hasn't had much in the way of those for some time now.

Ah, doctor, hey, uh,

if you could just help me out of bed

and then I'll be on my way.

Arne!

Well...

- I need to feed Stauning. - No, no. He's fine.

He's at mine.

I think we'll keep you in for a few more days.

No. No way. I'm going home. I need to cut the grass.

Right, we need to get your numbers in order first.

Couple more days and you'll be good as new.

We'll come and check on you again tomorrow, Arne.

Yeah.

- Yeah, well, bye, Arne. - Yeah.

- Yeah. Drive safe. - Bye, Kenny.

- Dennis. - Take care of him.

All that doctors talk gives you a thirst.

Ah, here you go.

Ta. Have you got a smoke?

- Sure, I'll give you one. - Ah.

Here you go. There.

What a nuisance, huh?

I'll say. We thought you were gonna kick the bucket.

I'm not going until I get that 400 kroner you owe me.

I knew I should have left you there.

What...

Cardiac arrest!

Defibrillation.

THE NURSE

- Ma! - Hi, sweetie. Mmm!

- Hey, Pernille. - Hi, Morten.

Hurry up and put your pyjamas on, please. You're going straight to bed.

- Yeah. - Good night, darling.

Good night, Dad.

- Sorry we're late. - It went well?

Yeah, really nice.

It's just great though I can have her for a longer now, you know.

I think she still needs to settle and get used to everything,

but it's gonna be great.

- I'm so pleased you moved here. - Yeah, it's gonna be good.

- Yeah. - Mmm.

First day tomorrow?

It's my first day as a fully qualified genuine nurse, yeah.

- Great. - Yes.

I know it's not the greatest hospital.

But I know a few people who work there, and they're really nice.

Well, I'm sure it's gonna be fun. I'm looking forward to it.

- You're not, um, nervous? - Nah.

Hmm.

Okay... I'm pretty nervous.

Well, I just want everyone to think I'm the best nurse

they've ever seen in their life.

They'll love you.

- I know it, okay? - Mm-hmm.

Good.

How do you know that?

Because I know that you're sweet and you're clever,

and you're funny, so of course you'll make new friends.

It's gonna be really hard.

Yeah, it can be tricky sometimes.

But, Alberte, it's gonna be so good.

Mm-hmm. You're in a new school. I've got a new job,

and on top of that, you get to spend more time with your dad.

- You getting back together? - No.

Why?

Because your father and I, uh, really don't work well together.

As friends though, we're really very good at that.

Also, we were very good at making a little girl.

I'm a big girl.

Yeah, you're very big, but you do have to go to sleep now.

Otherwise, you'll be exhausted on your very first day.

- Good night, sweetheart. - Good night, Ma.

It's nice here, right? And your school is just over there.

There's a space.

Oh!

- Oh, for goodness' sake! - Ma!

- That was shit of him. - Be calm.

He could see I was pulling in.

- I'll show you and only you. - But that's so unfair.

- I know. It's embarrassing. - I got mine done.

- And I'm worried that it looks weird. - You girls worry too much.

You look a little bit lost.

Uh, yeah, we're looking for 1X's registration.

- Do you know where we go? - Yeah, it's just behind that block there.

- Super. That's very kind. - You're welcome.

- First day? - Yeah, Alberte's starting in 1X today.

Oh, how nice.

- Yeah, aren't you with Morten? - Yeah.

- Well, we're not an item. - Oh.

We... we were together.

No, Morten is Alberte's dad.

- Okay. - You know him?

Yeah, I've known him for years.

My little brother and him were at school, and his ma's my dad's second cousin.

- You don't say. - Yeah.

Oh, we'd better go.

Well, good luck today. Say hi to Morten. I'm Karen Møller.

I will, and I'm Pernille.

I know. Good luck at the hospital.

Ah, thanks.

Yeah, come on. Let's find your classroom.

HOSPITAL

Hang on. What happened to Christina?

Well, did you see who she went home with?

- No. Who? - Chris, the paramedic.

No! That's Torben's cousin! Did she do him too?

She sure did.

- What, is she lying? - She's completely crazy.

DANISH NURSES ORGANIZATION

So we have five emergency departments here,

and ward three is for urgent treatment of heart and lung conditions, infections.

Attempted suicide and overdoses.

They're supposed to only stay here for 48 hours.

And then they're either discharged or if not,

we move them onto another ward.

And you have to keep this beeper on you... all the time,

and if a patient needs you to come, you'll hear two short beeps.

And then if a cardiac arrest alarm goes off,

everyone's beeper starts to beep.

In here is the medicine room.

And only nurses are allowed in.

Doctors don't have access.

Yeah. In here is the emergency kit.

If a patient goes into cardiac arrest,

you must immediately take this with you into the room.

And it has all you need to resuscitate.

Adrenaline, Cordarone, atropine, potassium chloride.

And if there's a broken seal, then you swap it for a new one, okay?

Yes. And where do you write down what you take?

You don't write it down.

We talked about putting in a system,

but it's really way too difficult when it gets busy.

- So we scrapped the idea. - Oh, okay.

- Let me show you the staff room. - Good.

Hey! Say hello to Pernille.

She's new on ward three.

- Hi. Hi. - Hi, there. Trine.

- Pernille. Thank you. - Nice to meet you.

We have Diana, Marlene and Ditte over here.

- And Katja's over there. The grown-ups. - Hi.

- The rest of us just talk about Tinder. - Trine!

Linda doesn't like that we have lives outside of work.

It's not that. I just don't wanna hear about them.

Come on then. Let's find the girl you'll be working with.

Yeah, well, uh, it's nice to meet you.

Well, Frank. I think Frank got too much.

If you look, uh, further down, you'll see...

Stay here. I'll go find her.

- You got time for another one? Hmm? - Yeah.

It's ventricular fibrillation.

- Should I intubate? - No, let's wait a bit.

- What do we have in this IV? - Let's do a rhythm check.

Stop compressions.

There's a shockable rhythm. Charging.

All clear. Defibrillation.

- In cardiac arrest. - Start chest compressions.

- Adrenaline? - Here.

So is she on any meds we should be aware of?

Does anyone know anything about the patient?

Yeah, this is Alma. She's 59.

She was admitted with respiratory difficulties.

She had irregular heart rate,

atrial fibrillation and now ventricular fibrillation.

- SAT of 69, pulse can't be measured. - Rhythm check.

Blood pressure is 60 over 20. Respiratory rate close to zero.

Anything else?

We've had her on oxygen while she's been here.

- And there's nothing cardiological. - Thanks, Christina. Well done.

- Rhythm check. - There's a shockable rhythm.

Continue chest compression.

Charging.

Clear. Defibrillation.

- She's breathing. - And we've got sinus rhythm.

- What about ECG? - Yes, we need an ECG.

Thank you, Christina.

Remaining stable.

Oh, there she is. She'll be training you.

Christina, this is Pernille. She's new on ward three.

- Hi, Pernille. Welcome to emergency. - Thanks.

- Where were you before? - Nursing school.

- Okay. First job? - Yeah, it's my first real job as a nurse.

2.5 milligram for the guy in room 32.

- Okay. - Yeah.

- But I'm eager to learn. - Good, 'cause there's a lot.

- Looking good, Gerda. - Thanks.

- I'll bring you some juice in a mo. - Oh, lovely. Thanks.

I read everything I can get my hands on.

- Can you show up on time? - Yeah.

- Bloods? - Yes.

Start an IV?

I can also change a nappy while shopping online.

Single mum?

- Seven-year-old daughter. Alberte. - Ah! You should have said.

Then you're ready.

I'm a single mum too.

- I see. - My girl's eight now. They can play.

- Yeah, sure. - Hmm.

So what you need to know about emergency three

is that it's unlike any other ward here.

Everything here moves faster. It's more... extreme.

- Hmm. - It's a kind of war zone. Here.

Hi, Bjarne. Just checking up on you.

- Did Linda talk about the doctors here? - No.

Well, we get the ones that can't get a job elsewhere else.

Yeah, if we're lucky, they might know a bit of the language.

A lot of the time us nurses are on our own.

On emergency, you need to think for yourself.

Need to make quick decisions.

- Luckily, we're really good here. - Hmm.

- Will you help me turn him? - Sure.

On three. One, two, three.

Ah, good, Bjarne.

You said hi to Pernille?

She's really competent... and nice.

- Hi. - Hi.

- Is she emergency girl potential? Hmm? - We'll have to find out.

Can you make a note for SATs?

- I'll be right back. - Yeah. Mm-hmm.

- Will you check the guy in room 38? - Yeah.

- Hi. Ditte. - Pernille.

- Hi. - Hi.

- Welcome, Pernille. - Thanks.

- So you've already got a fan, I see. - No, no. She's just teasing.

I'm very green and trying to keep up with it all.

- But it's good. Hmm. - Hmm.

And Christina's training you?

Yeah, and she's really cool.

Yeah. Yeah, she's certainly the nurse

who knows the most here on the emergency ward.

Oh, and there's a lot to keep track of. It's hectic.

Very hectic.

You need eyes in the back of your head here.

Hmm.

- But welcome anyway. - Thanks.

But they'll see. I'll show them that I can be a proper emergency girl.

A what? Where does this go?

Uh, by the sofa.

An emergency girl. It's just that someone said...

You know what?

It doesn't matter.

I'm gonna show them how great a nurse I really can be.

It's Pernille.

Hi, Linda.

Oh, as in for tomorrow?

Yes, a night shift sounds great, and I'd really love to do it,

but, uh, I have my daughter.

- And I can't... - Hey, hey, hey.

Um, would you excuse me for a second?

I can drop her in.

And then you can pick her up when you've had a sleep.

Yeah, hi, Linda. I can do it. Yeah, uh, what time then?

Okay, great. Looking forward to it.

Bye.

See how easy everything is now that you've moved here?

- Hi, Katja. - Hi, Pernille. Hi.

- Out the way, please! Thanks! - Oh!

No! I've got it! Nearly there.

Yeah, well, you've just met Niels.

The hospital joker?

Well, I think he'd prefer that title.

But no, he's our chief physician.

- That guy? - Yep.

That's Niels Lundén.

He tells really awful jokes, you know.

But he's clearly the best physician we have on this ward.

Hello, ladies, how are you?

- Hello. - Ciao! All good?

Well, he's kind of handsome.

Yeah, you're not the first nurse to think so,

but I really wouldn't go there.

- People around here gossip like crazy. - No, I wouldn't dream of it.

- I don't want... - Pernille.

- Hey. - Hi.

- Good luck. - Ta.

Ready for your first night shift?

- It's just you and me. - It sure is.

These night shifts can seem endless.

That's okay.

Other times, you're rushed off your feet, and they're the fun ones.

I think that maybe I should do a round, check if everything's all good.

You do that.

I'll just sit here and bore myself to death.

This is your first cardiac arrest.

Room 37. Get an emergency kit.

Hurry!

What shall I do? Get someone?

I've pressed the alarm. Cardiac arrest team are on their way.

- Turn on the defib. - Yeah. Uh...

- I've never done this before. - It's okay.

Uh...

Turn it on.

- Done chest compressions before? - On a dummy.

Let me show you how to do it. Come round here. Come, come, come, come.

- Okay, hands here. - Mm-hmm.

- Hard as you can. Even if his ribs break. - Mm-hmm.

Yeah, okay. Now listen carefully.

In rhythm.

Join me. Follow the rhythm. We'll count.

- Yes, it's ready. - Stop compressions.

We have a shockable rhythm.

Charging.

All clear. Completely clear. Defibrillation.

He's stable.

- He survived? - Well, just barely.

But only because you started CPR so fast.

Very cool.

- Whoa. - Yeah.

You just saved his life.

It was the song that saved him.

And he was thinking, "Fuck, that can't be the last song I ever hear."

- You're joking. - Well done, you two.

You're like a dream team.

Did you hear that?

Dream Team, baby.

You haven't seen the best thing. Come.

So.

So then, you tired?

Strangely, no.

I actually have loads of energy right now.

Adrenaline.

- Mm-hmm. - You're just high.

I felt the same way my first night.

And I still do.

Seriously though, we just saved a life, and fuck, it's such a kick!

It's insane.

"Look, an island. Look, a lake."

"An island in a lake. Look, Bob and Vips."

Hey, you've only been going to this new school for a month,

and you're already so good.

We're learning about poems, and poems don't have to rhyme.

You're absolutely right. Now it's sleep time.

- Really? - Afraid so.

Can I have a play date with Vera?

Yeah, of course you can.

It's great you found a friend.

Now you have to go to sleep.

Have you got new friends too?

Hmm, well, yeah. I have actually, yeah.

I work with someone who's really cool.

You're so lucky.

Yeah, I'm really lucky.

You can stay here. That's a good boy.

Stauning.

Oop.

Stay here, Stauning. I have to deal with this.

As I told you on the phone,

we've carried out your brother's autopsy.

And even though it won't bring Arne back, uh,

at least now,

uh, we've been able to determine the exact cause of his death.

Oh. What was it then?

Arne's tests show a rather large concentration

of morphine and diazepam in his blood.

What are you saying?

That he had an overdose.

That was the reason why his heart stopped.

You say an overdose.

But... but why did you give him an overdose?

No, no. We didn't give him an overdose.

I assure you,

Arne wasn't given morphine or diazepam

by the doctors at this hospital.

If that was the case, it would be here

in his records, and I assure you it's not.

Oh.

Oh, well, was it given to him by mistake?

Arne took the medicine himself, I'm sorry to say.

What?

Your brother took his own life.

Arne?

- So you said that he took his own life? - Mm.

Oh. No, no, no. He wouldn't do that. I'm sure.

For some time now,

Arne was on a course of antidepressant medicine.

After his son, um...

- Yeah, yeah, Jimmy. Yeah. - Yes, after Jimmy died.

Oh, I don't understand what you're saying.

Um, Arne was in such a good mood when I left him.

When I come back, I'd take him home.

- Yeah, yeah, we made plans. - I understand this is really hard for you.

How'd he do it? Where did he get the pills then?

He didn't take any pills,

or we would've surely found traces there in his stomach.

Then what?

Somehow or other, he must've got into the medicine room

late in the night and found, uh, ampoules

with morphine and diazepam.

So you're saying he went to the medicine room.

- Mm-hmm. - And found...

- Ampoules. Mm. - Ampoules.

So he went to his room

and just injected himself with diazepam and morphine.

And then he got back into bed?

Exactly.

No.

No.

Whoo! Okay, cheers!

Okay, so you know, I'm not saying there are cliques here.

Go on.

It's just that some are too fucking boring to hang out with.

Okay, they're boring.

Yeah, and there's me, Trine, Diana and a few others.

And we're hilarious. Hang out with us.

That sounds dangerous, all right?

We're fucking lethal.

Okay, no, no. If I have any more, there'll be nothing left.

Dance floor.

- Hey, Dream Team, wanna dance? - Nah.

- Come on! - Okay, yeah.

That's it. That's it!

- So, did you win then? - What was that?

Your sack race, did you win it?

- Yeah! Yeah, I won. Yeah. - Yeah? Okay.

Okay, it's just that they looked a bit younger than you.

Those two porters that you were racing.

Exactly, and, uh, they don't have the experience I have.

And not everyone knows the tactics or strategy you need for sack racing.

No, don't need to tell me, 'cause I was the sack race champion at pre-school.

Who are you again?

I'm Pernille.

- New nurse at emergency three. - Oh, yeah.

Settled in?

- Some of the nurses there can be a little... - That's where you are!

I'm going home with that guy now.

He says he's got a tattoo on his dick, but I don't believe him.

- Have fun. - See ya.

- She's direct. - You're not wrong.

Down the hatch.

Go on then.

Hi, Janni.

I'm Pernille. I'm a nurse. I'm on call today.

- Hi. - Hi. How are you?

I'm fine now, but it hurts a little when I talk.

Well, how about I do all the talking then, so you can rest now?

And if you think I talk too much, you can just pinch me.

Mm-hmm.

Well, it looks like you only ate your dessert.

Not that I can blame you. I wouldn't eat this either.

- Mm. - Hmm, shall I get another one for you?

It's not great for our reputation if the patients die of hunger.

- Thank you. - Yeah? Good.

I'll be right back, and you just pull the cord if there's anything else.

Okay.

- Thanks for your help. - You too. See you Saturday.

- Yeah. - Hmm.

- Hi. - Hi.

Fun night.

Yeah, it was.

- I'm really sorry for everything. - No, no. I'm the one who's sorry.

I was so embarrassing. I had too much to drink.

Can't handle those shots.

We talked about, um, sack racing.

Oh, yeah.

After that, uh, it's blank.

- Really. - But... but what I remember was nice.

Yeah.

From around here?

Uh, no. No, I lived in Odense for years.

Ah.

Well, let me know if you need any tips about Lolland-Falster.

- Mm-hmm. - I was new here once too.

- Can be hard to settle in. - Hmm.

- Uh, I'd like that. - What?

To get some of your tips.

Unless of course you didn't really mean it.

Sometimes people just say stuff, you know.

So tomorrow.

Okay.

At five?

Okay.

- Where do you live? - Uh, 4 Folisvej in Maribo.

4 Folisvej, Maribo. Hmm.

Pick you up.

Thank you.

Hey, so do I need to dress up?

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

See ya.

- Great, huh? - Oh, wonderful.

I just love to come out here.

So good to get away from all the chaos and tittle-tattle.

Yeah, and an ambulance, if we were to capsize.

Yeah, don't do that.

I don't do CPR.

- I've been thinking. - Yeah.

Did you choose to work down here?

Nah, my, uh, ex and my son are here, so I'm kind of trapped.

But if you weren't though?

Would you rather be somewhere else?

Well, I did when I first came here.

Everyone said it was the worst hospital in Denmark.

But I actually ended up thinking it's the best job in the world.

It's always busy. I like that.

And these people somehow ended up in Denmark's rectum

with all these health problems.

And they drink a lot and smoke way too much, you know.

They don't eat a balanced diet.

But most of them are wonderful people.

And they just need someone there to help them,

who doesn't see them as hopeless.

I know it sounds a bit...

No, no. I understand.

So what do you say we see how fast this thing can go?

- Yeah, okay. - Got sea legs?

- No, not really. - Let's give it some gas.

There's headwind.

- It won't go as fast as usual. - Okay.

Usually it goes really fast.

Let's see.

- Have a good one. - Thanks.

The guy in room 34 likes to take out his IV.

- Good to know. Get home safe. - Thanks.

- Pernille. - Hi, Ditte.

Inger's got kidney stone pain, but the morphine's not working.

Try Oxynorm.

And then assess her pain level in half an hour or so. She has a PRN.

Dream Team. Coffee on the roof soon?

- Yeah. - Okay, great.

EVENING - NIGHT - MORNING - NOON

I'll just do this.

Okay.

How are you? Can you sleep at all?

- Yeah, I'm sleeping fine. Feel good. - That's good.

Janni?

- Hi. - Hi.

- Need to take your blood pressure. - Yeah.

There. So did your family come by today?

- Yeah. - Yeah? That's nice.

They must be looking forward to having you home.

- Mm-hmm. - Hmm.

Looks really good.

Mm.

So do you need anything?

Good, then you try and get a bit more sleep, okay?

Yeah.

Pernille, cardiac arrest in room 26!

Get an emergency kit!

We have a shockable rhythm.

Charging.

- She's too young for her heart to stop. - Everybody clear.

Remove oxygen. Defibrillation.

- No change. - Continue chest compressions.

Uh, can I have 300 milligrams of Cordarone?

Yeah, got 300 mils here. Get the adrenaline ready.

- Giving her 300 milligrams. - Thank you.

- Rhythm check. - Stop.

We still have a shockable rhythm.

And charging.

Yes. Everyone clear. Remove oxygen. Defibrillation.

- No change. - Chest compressions.

Oxygen.

Listening.

Stop compressions.

We no longer have a shockable rhythm.

We are on 12th cycle. We have been at it for 26 minutes.

We don't have a shockable rhythm.

Are there any objections to stopping the treatment?

No?

- What time is it? - 3:16.

Record that as time of death.

Yes. Thank you.

Hi. You look worn out.

It's been intense.

- Why? - We lost a patient.

A young girl that... who shouldn't have died, so...

Shit. Crazy shift, huh?

- Where are the records? - Aren't they over there?

Ah.

What's up, Dream Team?

Wanna go up top?

Fuck. What a shift.

- I really thought she'd be all right. - Her name was Janni.

You okay? You're pale.

- I don't know if this is for me. - What?

Working here on ward three.

Oh, come on.

She was very young.

I don't think I'd considered how, um,

intense it is.

So maybe a regular job would suit me better.

One where in the morning you come in,

have lunch at 12 and work till six.

It's better.

What is?

Being a regular nurse in a regular department.

Emergency sucks.

Not enough sleep and too much stress. It's too much.

And you work just as hard whether you save lives or not.

And no matter how great we are,

we only control 95%, yeah?

And the other five...

...we really have no control of whatsoever.

It's in the lap of the gods.

Just call it fate.

Sometimes people die.

That's all.

People here often have multiple diagnoses, and that puts them at high risk.

With you and me, they stand a chance.

I've seen how you work.

You know what to do, and you take no shit.

Clear-headed under pressure.

And the more pressure you're under, the more clear-headed you are.

Just like me.

I guarantee that the kick you get when everything falls into place...

you will only find that here.

And I know you don't wanna hear it, but I'll say it anyway.

You belong here.

Mm.

And you and I are a fucking dream team.

- Yeah? - Mm.

- Do you need help with anything? - No, no. Thank you.

- Okay. - Uh, Ditte.

Yeah?

Do you know whether or not diazepam was administered to her?

Yeah, I know it wasn't.

- Yep, well, I'll see you tomorrow then. - Yeah, okay.