Nurse Jackie

Longtime ER nurse Jackie Peyton bends the rules to bring some good from a patient's senseless death, while concealing her addiction to painkillers she gets from her boyfriend, the hospital pharmacist.

Jackie and her husband become concerned that their older daughter is suffering from anxiety disorder; a hospital administrator drinks Jackie's Percoset-laced coffee.

Jackie meets a patient who uses his wife's chicken soup to treat his heart disease. Later, she talks to Dr. O'Hara about her daughter's anxiety and learns that a pill-dispensing machine will take Eddie's job.

Jackie considers 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.

Jackie breaks 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.

An old friend of Jackie's checks into the hospital with terminal lung cancer, and asks Jackie to help end her life; Dr. Cooper's mother is admitted with a gall bladder attack and reveals a family secret.

A man is admitted to the ER with a steak knife in his chest, after an attack by the ex-husband of a woman he was dating for the first time; Mrs. Akalitus takes charge of a foundling abandoned at the nurses' station.

Jackie discovers that a new temp nurse is abusing drugs; Mrs. Akalitus still has the foundling infant left at the hospital; Coop reveals to Eddie that Jackie has a child.

Jackie admits a dying patient she has treated before, learns that O'Hara has betrayed her secrets to a sister in Paris, and forges an organ donation form in Coop's name.

Jackie makes an unusual ploy to get Coop off her back about the fake organ donor card; O'Hara helps Jackie remove her wedding ring.

Eddie is replaced by an automated pill dispensing machine; Zoey administers the wrong dose of medicine to a film critic, who lapses into a coma.

Kevin makes a special event of giving Jackie a new wedding ring; the comatose movie critic wakes up but his tastes have changed; Eddie learns the truth.