Miss Evers Boys Film Summary

This is my first time knowing Miss Evers’ Boys but I was intrigued to know what was it about. In the past, I have learned briefly about the Tuskegee Project but never learned the full story of how this project was conducted. It is no secret that human experiments have been part of the health care field for centuries. In my opinion after watching this movie the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, which ran for 40 years in Alabama, is one of the most awful and deceiving of all.

By watching this film it showed me another way how racial disparity has affected the black community. It is disappointing to see how these men suffered and died from a disease that available treatment was available five years after the study began. As I watched the film,

But after a year, when she learned that treatment was not going to be included in the study, she should have made the decision to negate participation in this study. These men place their trust in her; I believe that if she had declined to participate in this project, the experiment on these poor black men would have ended; this experiment was able to continue because these men place their trust on Nurse Evers. Arnold and Boggs (2016) states that the nurse’s main obligation is to the patient, regardless if this is an individual, family, group, or community. She failed to comply with her obligation to this group of individuals and instead participated in this unethical study. If I place myself in Nurse Ever shoes, I would have informed the men from the time I was aware that they were not going to receive treatment, would have packed my bags for that new job and left

In addition, it states that the rights of the client and the obligation of a nurse is determined by what will result in greater health. The rightness of her actions illustrates that it did not contribute to the overall health of the group, at a point in the study, she was aware that the study was going to continue until they all had died and they were not going to receive any available treatment. Her actions prove that she did not look after the best interest of her patients. If nurse Evers had applied caring as a nurse, it would have meant that the lives that were lost through death would have been saved. In order to practice nursing ethically, one must be able to identify the existence of a moral problem (Arnold & Boggs, 2016). It obvious in the movie she failed to identify the existence of the moral problem involved in the study, when she knowingly participated in a study that was going to cause harm to her patient, her job as a nurse was to take action. By educating her patient on what the study involved and what was going to be available for them like free food, medical care, and burial expenses, she would have provided them with the tools to make an informed