The Nurse (2023) S01 [Hindi-Danish]

Pernille Kurzmann Larsen, a fresh-faced nurse at a hospital, begins to question the attention-seeking tendencies of her colleague, Christina Aistrup Hansen. As Pernille delves deeper into her suspicions, she starts to believe that Christina’s behavior may be linked to a series of patient deaths.

After The Good Nurse, released in 2022, Netflix returned in April 2023 with another case of a hospital nurse who killed some patients. And it’s again a true story: The Nurse (2023) is a Danish production based on the book of the same name published in 2021 by Kristian Corfixen, and it describes the crimes committed by the Danish night nurse Christina Aistrup Hansen in 2012 and 2015. Let’s find out what happened.

Christina Aistrup Hansen was arrested in 2016 for the death of three patients at the Nykøbing Falster Hospital in Denmark. The patients were a 72-year-old man who died in 2012 and two more patients, an 86-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man, who died on the same day, February 28, 2015. In all cases, high dosages of morphine and diazepam (better known as Valium) were found in their bodies. And the night nurse working in the hospital department was always Christina Aistrup Hansen.
One of her colleagues, Pernille Larsen (successfully portrayed in the TV series The Nurse), started having suspects. With the help of her boyfriend, Dr. Niels Lunden, who worked in the same department, they alerted the police. Christina Aistrup Hansen was arrested shortly after.
The trial became one of the most significant cases covered by the Danish media. The nurse became famous in Denmark as the “Devil of Death” (“dødsdjævel” in Danish, as you can see in this article). It was proven that she was the one injecting morphine and diazepam in those patients. She was sentenced to life in prison in 2016 for three murders and one attempted murder (another patient survived that day on February 28, 2015, always because of the substances injected by Christina). However, in 2017, the sentence turned to 12 years, and the charge was “attempted murder”: the reason is that it was impossible to prove that the morphine and diazepam were the direct cause of death.