Nurse Jackie
Season 1 Episode Guide
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Season snapshot
12
episodes currently available in the iDRief catalog.
Episode Directory
Season 1 episodes
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Episode
1
Pilot
Jun 8, 2009
Longtime ER nurse Jackie Peyton bends the rules to bring some good from a patient's senseless death, while concealing her addiction to a pain kille...
Episode
2
Sweet 'n All
Jun 15, 2009
Jackie and her husband, Kevin, become concerned that their older daughter Grace is suffering from anxiety disorder; hospital administrator Mrs. Aka...
Episode
3
Chicken Soup
Jun 22, 2009
An elderly patient checks in who has been treating his heart disease with chicken soup; Jackie discusses her daughter's anxiety with Dr. O'Hara; Ed...
Episode
4
School Nurse
Jun 29, 2009
Jackie and Kevin consider enrolling Grace in private school; the stoic Dr. O'Hara must endure the emotional thanks of a boy whose twin brother she...
Episode
5
Daffodil
Jul 6, 2009
Jackie breaks several rules and regulations to help a 10-year-old girl caring for her lupus-stricken mother; Mrs. Akalitus accidentally tasers hers...
Episode
6
Tiny Bubbles
Jul 13, 2009
Jackie is caught off-guard when a nurse (Judith Ivey) she used to work with, who is dying of lung cancer, asks Jackie to help end her life. Meanwhi...
Episode
7
Steak Knife
Jul 20, 2009
A man is admitted with a steak knife sticking out of his chest. Eddie gives Jackie a Cartier bracelet for their one-year anniversary, but she rejec...
Episode
8
Pupil
Jul 27, 2009
Jackie discovers that a new temp nurse is abusing drugs, but when she confronts him, he calls her on hypocrisy; Mrs. Akalitus still has the foundli...
Episode
9
Nose Bleed
Aug 3, 2009
Jackie admits a patient she has treated before. As his condition worsens, Zoey questions whether Jackie did enough to help him on his previous visi...
Episode
10
Ring Finger
Aug 10, 2009
Jackie and Grace begin mother-daughter tap class. Coop threatens to expose Jackie for falsifying a donor's record. Jackie has forgotten to remove h...
Episode
11
Pill-O-Matix
Aug 17, 2009
Kevin decides to buy Jackie a new wedding ring. At work, the automated pill machine replaces Eddie. A movie critic (played by Victor Garber) is adm...
Episode
12
Health Care And Cinema
Aug 24, 2009
Kevin invites Jackie to a midnight rendezvous in order to give her a new wedding ring; the comatose movie critic wakes up but his tastes have radic...