The Nurse Is Based On A True Story\n\n The Nurse (2024) is based on real events that happened at a Denmark hospital in the 2010s. Much of the story is dramatized from a 2024 investigative book, The Nurse: The True Story Behind One of Scandinavia's Most Notorious Criminal Trials by Kristian Corfixen.

Where is Pernille Kurzmann now? Kurzmann still works at Nykbing Falster Hospital. She changed her name when she married Dr Niels Lunden, who helped her uncover Hansen's crimes and also features in the series.