
Emergency room nurse Jackie Peyton does everything she can to provide her patients with the best care possible while navigating the waters of a crumbling health-care system. But she has a secret that is increasingly difficult to keep from people -- she relies on Vicodin and Adderall to get her through high-stress shifts at a New York hospital, where she isn't above bending the rules to keep things running smoothly in the face of indifferent doctors, penny-pinching bean counters and miles of bureaucratic red tape.
Jackie and Kevin consider enrolling Grace in private school; Dr. O'Hara must endure a boy's emotional thanks; Zoey loses a patient.
Jackie breaks rules to help a girl, caring for her mother; Mrs. Akalitus tasers herself; O'Hara treats Zoey to a meal.
An old friend of Jackie's checks into the hospital with terminal lung cancer; Dr. Cooper's mother has a gall bladder attack and reveals a family secret.
A man is attacked by his date's ex-husband; Mrs. Akalitus takes charge of a foundling; O'Hara has a personal crisis.