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A Nurse's Opinion
199052 min 2 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Lawrence Carota
Production: Lawrence CarotaLouise CarotaShelagh Mackenzie
Script: D.F. MacDonald
Co-produced by East in Motion Pictures Inc. and the NFB with the participation of D.S.S., the Ontario Nurses' Association, the National Federation of Nurses' Unions, Labour Canada and Carota Films Ltd.
Nursing is a profession in crisis. Of the 250 000 nurses in Canada, more than 30 000 have left the profession. A Nurse's Opinion offers a balanced overview of many of the issues that have led to nursing's current dilemma. These include: the role of nursing in the health care system; increasing responsibility; long hours; low pay; increasingly large caseloads; burnout; exclusion from the decision-making process. A Nurse's Opinion points out the ways in which the historical development of nursing and the public perception of nurses as "selfless handmaidens" have contributed to the current crisis.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > Medical Personnel
- Work and Labour Relations > Working Conditions
Credits
- director
- Lawrence Carota
- camera
- Lawrence Carota
- producer
- Lawrence Carota
- Louise Carota
- Shelagh Mackenzie
- script
- D.F. MacDonald
- editing
- Louise Carota
- narrator
- Jan Tennant
- music
- Paul Tedeschini