Nursing
Nursing is a short film from 1942 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
SHOWS NURSES AT WORK IN MANY DIFFERENT JOBS INCL. ASSISTING W/ OPERATIONS & X-RAYS, & IN SPECIAL FIELDS SUCH AS SCHOOLS & INDUSTRIAL PLANT HOSPITALS.
Vocational film about careers in nursing. Choosing a nursing school; what happens in school; state licensing examinations; choice of a more specific nursing career: private duty nursing; public health nursing; visiting nursing.
Stock shots: [Unusual visual] women in groups of four lying floor legs locked together doing situps; women in laboratory; instruction in nutrition and cookery; students nurses practicing on each other; sanitation; test taking; school nurses weighing students on a large scale; measuring height; Children's ward in hospital; smiling infants
Voiceover: "To a great extent, heavy industry employs male nurses who are increasing in number and other men in nursing are employed in the care of the mentally ill and in prison hospitals."
Zero = first title
00:07 Young woman writing at desk with lamp 00:55 CU hand writing with fountain pen 00:58 Woman in fur coat enters office building through revolving door 01:11 Older nurse behind desk interviews woman in fur cost 01:48 Doctor and nurse examine patient in bed 01:56 Women in gymnasium doing sit-ups 02:05 Student nurses in classroom 03:00 Student nurses in laboratory 03:21 Student nurses prepare food in kitchen 03:32 Nurse prepares tray of food 03:46 Nurse takes patient's temperature 04:05 Nurse with mask washes hands 04:24 Nurse prepares and administers injection 05:00 Women at school desks taking examination (test) 05:30 Nurse gives patient a pill, fluffs pillow 06:20 Nurse bandages man's arm 06:39 School nurse weighs young woman 07:00 Nurse takes little girl's temperature and pulse 07:02 Heroic nursing poster and American flag waving 08:06 Nurse prepares intravenous injection (IV) 08:26 Nurse assists during surgery 09:10 Administrative nurses behind office desk 09:37 Nurse feeds boy in bed 09:55 Nurse presents newborn baby to mother
04:40:14:00 Your Life s Work: Nursing 00864
04:43:45:00 great med shot of two female students at individual home-economics classroom kitchenettes (04:43:51:00)
04:44:46:00 MCU of nurse s hands preparing injection (04:44:51:00) 04:44:52:00 med shot of two nurses giving injection to patient in bed (04:45:22:00)
04:48:13:00 med wide shot of doctor and nurse in hospital ward 04:48:23:00 med shot of doctor and nurse next to patient in bed - giving transfusion of some sort (04:48:51:00) 04:48:52:00 med shot of OR nurse prepping instruments (04:49:05:00)
04:49:06:00 med wide shot of OR - two nurses helping doctor on with scrubs
(04:49:21:00)| Nursing | |
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| Produced by | Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc. |
Production companies | Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc. |
| Distributed by | Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc. |
Release date | 1942 |
Running time | 10:41 |
| Language | English |
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