Getting On - Season 1 (2013)

It's July 4th at the Billy Barnes Extended Care unit of Mt. Palms Hospital in Long Beach, CA. On her first day of work, Nurse DiDi Ortley discovers feces on a lounge chair, and is torn between the conflicting orders of unit veteran Nurse Dawn Forchette (who wants to file an incident report before removing it), temporary Medical Director Dr. Jenna James (who is in need of stool samples for her medical study), and Supervising Nurse Beverly Raymes (who has issues with floor cleanliness and wants the seat sterilized). In a heated argument with Beverly, Dr. James has a ...

In the wake of Beverly's departure, a new (male) Supervising Nurse, Patsy De La Serda, joins the Billy Barnes staff with a customer-centric agenda he's convinced will improve ward efficiency. Patsy soon learns that managing patients--especially a highly uncooperative, un-medicated one named Varla--isn't necessarily improved through customer-service metrics. On the other end of the spectrum, a more docile patient named Donna wins DiDi's affection and displays impressive karaoke skills.

Patsy files a grievance against DiDi for remarks he deems inappropriate - Dr, James decides to go to a convention in Cleveland - a patient is caught in a romantic situation with her gentleman caller - Dawn gets evaluated with no exceptions.