
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 breaks rules to help a girl, caring for her mother; Mrs. Akalitus tasers herself; O'Hara treats Zoey to a meal.

A veteran nurse bends the rules to create something good from a patient's death, while hiding an addiction to painkillers.

Jackie and her husband are concerned about their daughter; the hospital administrator drinks Jackie's spiked coffee.

An elderly patient treats heart disease with chicken soup; Jackie discusses her daughter's anxiety with Dr. O'Hara; Eddie learns he is being replaced.