Nurses, Channel 5, review - Telegraph This first episode focused on high-tech, high-intensity care at Cardiff's "Heath" hospital - screwing together a broken back, vacuuming the clot out of a blocked heart valve through a long catheter threaded up from the arm. The nurses must take time with each patient, sometimes with one-to-one responsibility round the clock. "You should treat them the same as if they were awake," said Carla, a nurse at Cardiff, explaining why she had been talking to an apparently unconscious sedated patient. There's that fear, for them. It was striking that, even amid this almost ideal kind of nursing there was a repeated note of fear. "It's frightening," said a husband who had called an ambulance after hearing a crash as his 84-year-old wife, Joyce, fell in the next room. He acted not a moment too soon, for tests showed she had suffered a stroke, and would benefit from drugs given within hours of the incident. At the end of her 12-hour shift, the nurse Louise took a moment to tell Joyce that "they'll look after you" in the ward overnight. "They're afraid, they're frightened, often alone," she said to the camera afterwards. It's important that we help them as much as we can. Sometimes this is just by holding a hand. A newborn baby by reflex clutches any finger. A dying person may not be able to speak, but can still clasp a hand. "Death can become an everyday activity," said Carla, "but it never becomes normal, if that makes sense. It's never easy.