Media Evaluation Of The English Patient

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Summary: For this media evaluation paper, I watched a movie called The English Patient. The movie was about a nurse named Hana who, is from Canada but is a war nurse in Italy, takes care of a severely burned man who was found in the desert after his plane smashed into the ground and was caught on fire. Hana believe that she was cursed because everyone she loves dies and this is because her coworker who was a nurse dies and so does her fiancé. So that is when Hana left everything from being a war nurse for the soldiers to take care of this English patient in an abandoned Italian villa, since he has nobody to take care of him. She cooks, cleans, bathes, and takes care of the English patient. The patient is known as the English patient …show more content…

It made her look selfless, caring, and compassionate for what she loves to do and that is being a nurse. I thought the movie wanted to show the society to know that a passionate nurse is truly willing to put everything on the line away just to care of a person and their wellbeing. That was a positive effect I thought it had on the society. A negative effect I thought this movie had was the fact the in the very beginning Hana kissed the random patient who was injured. I thought that in a way it told the society that it was okay or normal for a nurse to have a relationship with their patient. Even though Hana never had any intimate relationship with the burned patient and nor did this random patient ever show up again the movie. Also another negative impact, I thought, was that this movie portrayed nurses to the society to be careless when it comes to medication. Hana never realized that Caravaggio was a morphine addict and would use the morphine for …show more content…

One connection I made in this movie that related to the class was how having professional standards helps give directions to critical thinking; Alfaro-LeFevre talks about how these standards give nurses an idea on what is the customary care for the patient and how that effects the ability to critically think as a nurse (Alfaro-LeFevre, 2013, p. 110). I felt that in the movie there were no standard of care that were outline for Hana to give to Almasy. It was all just truly based on her knowledge and her judgment. She really never knew if something was truly right or if something was truly wrong. Throughout the movie I thought that Almasy and Hana had a great nurse-patient relationship. I believed that Almasy trusted Hana a lot. At the end of the movie I felt as if they became good friends because while Hana was putting more morphine into the needle she was crying at the same time because she knew he was going to pass away. A scholarly article showed that trust is a success when it comes to nurse-patient relationship and it can lead to an honorable death experience for the patient (Mok & Chiu, 2004). I do believe that Almasy had a monumental death because he had a great nurse taking care of him and who would also read to him so that he can try and remember who he was. At the end he did realize who he was and that the love of his life has passed away and so he wanted to

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