Nurse Jackie: Season 1

2009 · 12 episodes · ★ 8.2

What Season 1 of Nurse Jackie

Jackie Peyton is an ER nurse at All Saints Hospital in New York. Married to Kevin and mother of two daughters, she also has an affair with Eddie, the hospital pharmacist, who gets her pills in exchange for favors. At the hospital, she is supported by Eleanor O'Hara, a British doctor and her best friend, and Zoey, an inexperienced nursing student. Between exhausting shifts, difficult patients and unreliable colleagues, Jackie tries to keep up with her job and her double life. Her dependence on painkillers keeps growing. At home, worry over her daughter Grace, who may be suffering from anxiety, adds another layer of pressure to a lead character who bends the rules to make the most of every situation.

12episodes

Jun 8, 2009released

Aug 24, 2009final episode

6 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Pilot
Jun 8, 2009 · 30 min · ★ 6.6
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 killer she gets from her boyfriend, the hospital pharmacist.
Directing: Allen Coulter · Starring: Dominic Fumusa, Anna Deavere Smith, Ruby Jerins, Lenny Jacobson
1x02 Sweet 'n All
Jun 15, 2009 · 30 min
Jackie and her husband, Kevin, become concerned that their older daughter Grace is suffering from anxiety disorder; hospital administrator Mrs. Akalitus drinks Jackie's Percoset-laced coffee.
Directing: Craig Zisk · Starring: Dominic Fumusa, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Wallem, Ruby Jerins
1x03 Chicken Soup
Jun 22, 2009 · 30 min
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; Eddie learns that he is to be replaced by a pill-dispensing machine.
Directing: Craig Zisk · Writing: Mark Hudis · Starring: Dominic Fumusa, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Wallem, Ruby Jerins
1x04 School Nurse
Jun 29, 2009 · 30 min
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 saved; Zoey loses a patient for the first time.
Directing: Steve Buscemi · Writing: Christine Zander · Starring: Dominic Fumusa, Stephen Wallem, Ruby Jerins, Daisy Tahan
1x05 Daffodil
Jul 6, 2009 · 30 min
Jackie breaks several rules and regulations to help a 10-year-old girl caring for her lupus-stricken mother; Mrs. Akalitus accidentally tasers herself; O'Hara treats Zoey to a meal at a four-star restaurant.
Directing: Steve Buscemi · Starring: Dominic Fumusa, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Wallem, Ruby Jerins
1x06 Tiny Bubbles
Jul 13, 2009 · 30 min
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. Meanwhile, Coop's mother (Blythe Danner) is admitted with a gall bladder attack. We learn that he is the only son of lesbians...a fact that delights Jackie and O'Hara.
Directing: Craig Zisk · Writing: Rick Cleveland · Starring: Dominic Fumusa, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Wallem, Ruby Jerins
1x07 Steak Knife
Jul 20, 2009 · 30 min
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 rejects the gift. A baby is left in the nurses' station and Akalitus takes the infant to her office.
Directing: Steve Buscemi · Starring: Dominic Fumusa, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Wallem, Ruby Jerins
1x08 Pupil
Jul 27, 2009 · 30 min
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 foundling infant left at the hospital; Coop reveals to Eddie that Jackie has a child.
Directing: Steve Buscemi · Starring: Dominic Fumusa, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Wallem, Ruby Jerins
1x09 Nose Bleed
Aug 3, 2009 · 30 min
Jackie admits a patient she has treated before. As his condition worsens, Zoey questions whether Jackie did enough to help him on his previous visit. Jackie's drug use starts to cause spontaneous nose bleeds.
Directing: Paul Feig · Starring: Dominic Fumusa, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Wallem, Ruby Jerins
1x10 Ring Finger
Aug 10, 2009 · 30 min
Jackie and Grace begin mother-daughter tap class. Coop threatens to expose Jackie for falsifying a donor's record. Jackie has forgotten to remove her wedding ring, and needs to get it off before meeting Eddie for a quickie.
Directing: Paul Feig · Writing: Liz Brixius · Starring: Stephen Wallem, Ruby Jerins, William Oliver Watkins, Jill Flint
1x11 Pill-O-Matix
Aug 17, 2009 · 30 min
Kevin decides to buy Jackie a new wedding ring. At work, the automated pill machine replaces Eddie. A movie critic is admitted with a broken elbow.
Directing: Scott Ellis · Writing: Rick Cleveland · Starring: Dominic Fumusa, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Wallem, Ruby Jerins
1x12 Health Care and Cinema Season Finale
Aug 24, 2009 · 30 min
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 radically changed.
Directing: Scott Ellis · Starring: Dominic Fumusa, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Wallem, Ruby Jerins