Television:
Don't watch much, but I love "House."
Books:
Aside from nursing textbooks...Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho and Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman. Oh, reread some T.S. Elliot and William Yeats recently.
Heroes:
Heroines? Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Margaret Sanger, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alice Walker to name a few.