Part I focuses on establishing sound personal health practices, increasing awareness of body language, learning principles of stress management, time management and setting priorities. Part II focuses on knowing how to make good objective observations, gather the client's subjective input, report and record these observations.

Jackie Peyton is a drug-addicted emergency room nurse in a New York City hospital. "For Jackie, every day is a high-wire act of juggling patients, doctors, fellow nurses, and her own indiscretions. In the second season..., Jackie struggles to keep up as a functioning addict, a loving wife and mother, and a first-class nurse"--Container.

Jackie Peyton is a sharp-tongued and quick-witted nurse who is trying to survive the chaotic grind of saving lives in a hectic New York City hospital. Jackie's a woman of substance who knows how to handle it all. With a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a steady dose of pain relievers for her chronic back pain, Jackie does whatever it takes to get the job done.