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The American Nurse

The American Nurse

2014

6

Categories:

  • Documentary

Overview:

THE AMERICAN NURSE is a heart-warming film that explores some of the biggest issues facing America - aging, war, poverty, prisons - through the work and lives of nurses. It is an examination of real people that will change how we think about nurses and how we wrestle with the challenges of healing America. THE AMERICAN NURSE is an important contribution to America's ongoing conversation about what it means to care. The film follows the paths of five nurses in various practice specialties including Jason Short as he drives up a rugged creek to reach a home-bound cancer patient in Appalachia. Tonia Faust, who runs a prison hospice program where inmates serving life sentences care for their fellow inmates as they're dying. Naomi Cross, as she coaches an ovarian cancer survivor through the Caesarean delivery of her son. Sister Stephen, a nun who runs a nursing home filled with goats, sheep, llamas and chickens, where the entire nursing staff comes together to sing for a dying resident.

Carolyn Jones

Story, Director, Executive Producer

Lisa Frank

Producer

Cast:

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  • Lafayette Ballard

    Lafayette Ballard

    Self
  • Stephen Bloesl

    Stephen Bloesl

    Self (as Sister Stephe...
  • Jason Cross

    Jason Cross

    Self
  • Namoi Cross

    Namoi Cross

    Self
  • Nathan Cross

    Nathan Cross

    Self
  • Elizabeth Elam

    Elizabeth Elam

    Self