An edition of The American Nurse (2012)

The American nurse

The American nurse
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An edition of The American Nurse (2012)

The American nurse

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.

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English
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80

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Cover of: The American nurse
The American nurse
2013, Carolyn Jones Productions
in English
Cover of: The American Nurse
The American Nurse: Photographs and Interviews
2012, Welcome Books, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Hardcover in English - First Edition

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Edition Notes

"A Carolyn Jones documentary" - Cover

Bonus material: Film trailer -- About the American Nurse Project -- Sister Stephen's menagerie -- 5 nurses meet on the red carpet -- the Angola rodeo.

Director of photography, Jaka Vinsek ; edited by Isabel Sadurni and Steve Heffner ; original music, Hayes Greenfield

Featuring: Naomi Cross, Jason Short, Tonia Faust, Brian McMillion, Sister Stephen Bloesl.

DVD.

Dolby Digital plus.

Published in
New York]
Other Titles
The American nurse: healing America
Copyright Date
2013

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Library of Congress
RT41 .A64 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
1 videodisc (approximately 80 min.)
Number of pages
80

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Open Library
OL47076793M
OCLC/WorldCat
892642929

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Work Description

This extraordinary book of 75 portraits, interviews, and biographies is the result of the American Nurse Project, an endeavor launched by Fresenius Kabi, a worldwide leader in infusion therapy, IV generic drugs, and clinical nutrition. Enlisting the talents of Carolyn Jones, an award-winning filmmaker and creator of numerous photography books, and her producer, Lisa Frank, the project set out to capture and share the images and stories of nurses from all across America and to celebrate the role of the nurse in this country's health care system.

In The American Nurse, readers are invited to think about nurses in a way that they may never have before, unless they have been under a nurse's care. This body of work will inspire audiences to focus their attention on the nurses who serve as healers in their community, and whose wealth of knowledge needs to be tapped in order to solve today's pressing health care issues.

The challenge of creating a rich portrait of nursing in America began with a map of the U.S. and a red pen. Carolyn Jones wanted to cover as much territory as possible, with the hope that along the way she would capture stories touching on the kinds of issues that nurses are dealing with in every corner of the country. Some of the issues might be specific to a particular area, like the nurses who were charged with evacuating patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Others would be universal no matter where Jones visited, such as nurses providing emotional support to patients and families to help get them through the toughest times in their lives.

The journey began in New York City, where Carolyn met nurses working in the district with the highest rate of hunger in the U.S., as well as nurses doing health outreach to at-risk teens. She moved southward, stopping in Baltimore to meet nurses on the cutting edge of healthcare and nurse educators training the next generation, and then traveled to San Diego, where she met nurses at a VA hospital that is home to the largest concentration of veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. In Louisiana, she went behind bars and met nurses dealing with prisoners; and in Riverton, Wyoming she learned about the health needs of the Native American population there. Having crisscrossed the country, from rural Eastern Kentucky to Florida to New Orleans to Nebraska to Wisconsin to San Francisco and Chicago, Jones presents a compelling portrait of a key figure on the front lines of health care today: the American nurse.

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