Ellen Hundley

**Nurse Ellen Hundley**, is an emergency room nurse at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. She is portrayed by Denitra Isler.

## Biography

### Season One

In "Identity Crisis", due to budget cuts, Hundley is let go of and gets a new job at St. John's. Feldman notes that Hundley was "too experienced, too good, too expensive." However, her replacement, Nurse Tiffany, an inexperienced nurse, erroneously triages a young man during a mass casualty event, resulting in his death. At the end of the day, Hundley is re-hired by Chastain thanks to Conrad and provides him with the John Doe's recovered cell phone, allowing Conrad to contact the young man's mother and inform her of her son's death.

### Season Two

In "00:42:30", after the hospital's power is shut down due to a cyberattack, Hundley tries to turn away an ambulance carrying a severely-wounded young boy. Conrad overrides Hundley, as he knows that the boy won't survive the trip to another hospital, and has her call for a trauma surgeon. As Conrad begins to cut into the boy in the middle of the ER, Hundley warns him that if the boy dies, it's not his or her fault, but if he cuts into the boy and he dies, it will be on him and he shouldn't risk it. Conrad simply orders her to give him a ten-blade, which she reluctantly does. Conrad's actions help to stabilize the kid's pulse and he orders Hundley to get Nolan to the ER immediately. When Nolan arrives, Hundley helps him to get prepped as Nolan berates Conrad for his actions. Hundley then helps Nolan to keep the kid alive while Conrad and Devon build him a makeshift OR in the ER.

### Season Four

In "A Wedding, A Funeral", while performing CPR on a man who goes into cardiac arrest, Hundley is exposed to COVID-19 as the staff realizes that he has been infected too late to warn her. Hundley contracts the virus, but does her best to stay out of the hospital while keeping her daughter away from her. After she gets worse, Hundley drives herself to Chastain and collapses in the parking lot. Despite the staff's best efforts, Hundley's health continually declines, even after she is reluctantly put on a ventilator.

At Conrad and Nic's wedding after the pandemic, it's revealed that Hundley ultimately survived the virus and has recovered by the time of the wedding, which she attends and sings at.

In "Mina's Kangaroo Court", Hundley is back at work and excited by the presence of Congresswoman Nichelle Randall as a patient.

In "Home Before Dark", on Chastain's last day open, Hundley is still on duty when Nic gets stabbed despite the ER being shut down. Hundley helps Conrad, Bell, Kit, Mina and AJ treat Nic's injury with the limited supplies that they still have and on Bell's orders, calls the entire staff in to help.

In "Doors Opening, Doors Closing", Hundley helps Conrad treat Devon's old sickle cell anemia patient Rose after she collapses during physical therapy. After Barrett Cain states that he's there as Rose's friend, Hundley quips that "I didn't know he had those." When Tina is admitted, Hundley is sent by Conrad to call OBGYN and he quietly asks her to keep Nic out of it which she agrees to do.

In "After the Storm", as a tornado ravages the city, Hundley helps everyone to prepare for the incoming patients.

In "Finding Family", Hundley helps Rose Williams out when she returns to the ER with Cain. Hundley later attends Conrad and Nic's baby shower and Conrad shouts a thanks to her as she leaves their house.

### Season Five

In "No Good Deed", Hundley helps to treat Janie, a young college student that suffered an overdose and tells her off for her ungrateful behavior after she and Feldman manage to wake her up. Recognizing that the girl's not telling them something she knows, Feldman sends Hundley to page AJ. When Janie starts crashing, Hundley calls over Feldman and AJ to help save her.

In "The Long and Winding Road", Hundley is shocked when Conrad suddenly returns to the ER and runs through it, only to learn that Nic has been in a serious car accident. When Devon comes looking for Nic, Hundley expresses concern for his still-recovering state before Feldman takes over.

When Gabe Sandoval returns to Chastain, Hundley helps to treat him.

Later, when Devon performs the test to determine if Nic is brain dead, Hundley and Jessica offer him their help. As of the signs all confirm her brain death, Hundley becomes emotional and starts crying as she watches. As Kyle Nevin breaks down at the news and berates Conrad, Hundley watches from the inside of Nic's room, leaning on Nic's bed in her own grief.

When Nic is wheeled into surgery to have her organs harvested, a crying Hundley is amongst the staff in the hall and remembers how Nic refused to give up on her when Hundley was struggling with COVID-19.

In "Her Heart", Hundley is impressed with Cade Sullivan's work as the new ER attending, but is surprised by how distant she is.

In "Now You See Me", Hundley helps Devon to treat Roxie, a woman who warns Hundley that, due to her large size, a normal BP cuff won't fit her. Hundley pulls out a leg BP cuff instead and reassures the patient that "in my ER, you get what you need." Hundley helps Devon and Roxie get set up for a chest X-ray and the two women banter with Hundley assuring Roxie that Devon is one of the good ones.

## Notes and Trivia

* Hundley is a single mother to a teenage daughter.