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The American nurse : healing America / A Carolyn Jones documentary.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 761
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nurses--United States--Interviews.
- Nurses.
- Military nursing--Interviews.
- Military nursing.
- Prison nurses--United States.
- Prison nurses.
- Hospice nurses--United States.
- Hospice nurses.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Interviews.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Healing America
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : [Carolyn Jones Production]: [Disitruted by DigiNext], [2014?]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- The film explores some of the biggest issues facing America - aging, war, poverty, prisons - through the work and lives of fives nurses: Jason Short, Tonia Faust, Naomi Cross, Sister Stephen, and Army veteran Brian McMillion. It is an examination of real people that will change how we think about nurses and how we wrestle with the callenges of healing America.
- A heartwarming portrait of those real-life heroes that risk their lives every day, through pandemics, cancer wards, and hospice care. This deeply moving documentary explores some of the biggest issues facing America, aging, war, poverty, and prisons, through the work and lives of nurses. Meet Jason Short, who works with home-bound patients in Appalachia; Tonia Faust, who provides hospice care to prison inmates; Naomi Cross, bringing babies into the world in Labor & Delivery.
- Notes:
- "Inside the nation's most trusted profession"--Disc label.
- OCLC:
- 931763273
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