American Nurse

In our society today, nursing is one of the most important features of our health care system. Nursing is defined as a profession characterized by providing care for the sick, injured or infirm. This profession comes with a lot of responsibility, dedication and commitment. Nurses need to act as caregivers, communicators and teachers for their patients in order for them to become healthier and feel better. The nurses in the movie; American Nurse directed by Carolyn Jones portrayed all of these traits, even though these nurses were so different. The nurses in the film included; Naomi Cross, a labor and delivery nurse, Jason Short a nurse in Eastern Kentucky, Tonia Faust a hospice nurse in a prison, Brian McMillion a military nurse
He is the type of person and nurse who treats any patient and gives patients treatments they need in the comfort of their own home. He understands what his patients are going through since he had a motorcycle accident as a teenager at 18 and was in a wheelchair for about a year. This incident allows him to be very compassionate with his patients and empathetic towards them. Jason Short works in one of the poorest and rural areas in the country where some patients cannot pay him back for all the medication he gives to them. This shows how he doesn’t work for the money, he genuinely wants to help people and see his patients get better and healthier. By being in patients own homes, allows him to have a more intimate relationship with them and allows for people to be beyond grateful for all the determination he puts into treating them. He interacts with patients and their families by explaining everything to them on what medications they need to take and what is their current state. One interaction that stood out to me was all the work that he took in order just to see and treat his patients. He even went to places not accessible by ambulances, and went to visit a patient during a severe drought. One piece of advice I related to was how he portrayed nursing as a selfless act and how you should do anything for your patients. I agree with this because as
As a nurse, she treats the elderly as well as young children. For her elderly patients, she treats them with respect and helps them become at peace and uses animal therapy by bringing animals to the nursing home, which makes them happier and helps them cope with their illnesses. Her younger patients are in foster care or in social services or in broken families and usually have some kind of disorder like; autism, bipolar behavior or sexual abuse. She treats these patients by helping them develop a sense of responsibility and helps them feel safe and secure with her when they take care of the animals on her farm. Since this nurse works on a farm and is a nun, she uses her farm animals as a healing mechanism and uses her religion for a form of coping for her patients. She also uses religion by singing hymens and Catholic songs to her patients, which relaxed them and helped them feel in peace. This was one particular interaction that stood out to me, when she and other nurses and staff of the hospital sang a Catholic Hymen to one of her hospice patients at the end of her life. This brought together the nurses and staff of the hospital and helped the patient feel more at peace with her illness and more comfortable and happy overall. A piece of advice I could take away from Sister Stephan is that sometimes no matter what you do for patient, it is