The American Nurse

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Lafayette Ballard

Self

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Stephen Bloesl

Self (as Sister Stephen Bloesl)

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Jason Cross

Self

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Namoi Cross

Self

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Nathan Cross

Self

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Elizabeth Elam

Self

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Tonia Faust

Self

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Lydia Fletcher

Self

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Director of Photography	Jaka Vinšek
Directing	Director	Carolyn Jones
Production	Executive Producer	Carolyn Jones
	Associate Producer	Candace Thompson
	Producer	Lisa Frank
Writing	Story	Carolyn Jones
Sound	Original Music Composer	Hayes Greenfield
Editing	Editor	Steve Heffner Isabel Sadurni
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