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…
because he forgot his name and everything about himself after the plane crash but the only thing that he remembers is that he is an English man. Later on in the movie we find out the patients name is Almasy and this is because he has a diary about himself that was saved during the plane crash. The diary tells the story about the love of Almasy life which is Katharine. Hana reads Almasy diary to him since he cannot so he can remember who he is and to pass time. Later on in the movie a man named Caravaggio also lives with them at the abandoned Italian villa. He is a morphine addict and uses the morphine that is supposed to be given to the English patient for his pain without Hana, the nurse, knowing. Caravaggio is lacking both of him thumbs because he was interrogated and he realizes that the burned patient had to do something with why he lost his thumbs. So he moves in with him and the nurse so he can get vengeance. The patient, Almasy, has dreams about his past, in Egypt where he met his love Kathrine but when he wakes up as the burned patient in Italy he can’t remember who he is, he only remembers in his dreams. The movie also shows Hana falling in love again with a Sikh British-Indian man who decodes and defuses bombs. But the Indian man never dies even though Hana believes that she is cursed. Throughout the movie Hana reads Almasy diary to him and it is found out near the end of the movie that Kathrine has died and she was actually on the plane with him when it crashed. But Kathrine died even before the plane crash in a cave. Eventually, Almasy remembers everything that happened to himself and to Kathrine and how she dies. He gives Hana a clue about giving him a lot more of his daily dose of morphine so he can overdose and die. That is when Hana is put to the test about saving her patient or to not save him. She does what she is hinted to and gives Almasy a large dose of morphine and he dies. Personal Impact: Throughout watching this movie I had mixed feelings about the nurse and her handle of care. I thought it was very inspiring of Hana to leave everything that she was doing to concentrate and her focus her scope of practice on just one patient which is Almasy. I know that in the movie he asked her why she took out her time to keep him alive and she told him it was because she’s a nurse. I thought it was a very inspiring line from that movie and I really liked it. It shows that she is very passionate about being a nurse. But in the very beginning of the movie when Hana was taking care of the wounded soldiers one of them asked if he could have a kiss just because he wanted one. She does give in and gives him a kiss and I thought that was very weird and not professional at all. Also I didn’t like how Hana didn’t realize that that the morphine that was supposed to be given to the English patient was also being used by Caravaggio. I thought his had a huge negative impact on nurses in my eyes because I couldn’t believe that she didn’t do a daily count on the morphine because of issues like that. In a way it showed Hana as being a careless nurse. Also, I thought the last scene of the movie was very depressing because Hana ends up killing Almasy by giving him a large amount of morphine on purpose because he is so hurt by the loss of his loved one. I thought it was depressing and had a huge impact because nurses are known to save lives and she had the power in her hand to do what she is obligated to do as a nurse but turned it around by killing her own patient. Societal Impact: One positive impact this movie had on the society is that Hana willingly put down everything that she had to take care of the burned patient.
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…
himself. Course Content: This movie relates to the materials that we learned in class in many ways.
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
die. Conclusion: Overall, I really liked doing this paper because it made me critically think about how health care [professionals are view in my open point of view and also by the view of the society. There are things that I felt like were similar but also very different. I think this is all a learning process and it will take time to eventually change the point of view of one mind and eventually one whole society about their views on health care professionals, especially nurses.
In this movie there were also positive and negative behaviors outside of the hospital. Something positive outside of the hospital was that Mar Jean which was the family’s neighbor or friend was always helping the family when it was needed. When the family was struggling with money she bought them food and put them in its place. Something negative was that when
In Margaret Edson’s play Wit, a cancer patient promoted her end of life decision to her primary nurse rather than her supervisor doctor, and asks her primary nurse to take care of her till death. For result, there was one huge fighting between Vivian’s primary nurse Susie and doctor Jason when her heart stop beats.
For this assignment we were asked to review a movie. I choose to analyze the movie Fried Green Tomatoes from 1991. This movie has many lessons hidden inside, but also has a story of a story. It starts off with a woman named Evelyn Couch going to visit her husband’s bitter aunt, and turns into the daily visits to another member of that house. This woman’s name is Ninny Threadgood, and she always has wonderful stories to tell Evelyn. At first, she seems unsure of this elderly woman’s presence, but opens up quickly. These two ladies have a connection, and Evelynn’s prospective of life soon changes. Ninny tells her stories all along, but in the end it reveals that Ninny was really talking about her life in the past. Evelyn was going through a rough patch in her life, and visiting this woman was all she needed to make some changes. She changed her diet, knocked out a wall in the house, stood up for herself, and changed her
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... research experiment and not like a patient or with the decency she deserved. Some of the things that the doctors did to Vivian were so unethical and so inhumane that it makes one cringe just thinking about it. Fortunately for Vivian, Susie was the light at the end of the tunnel. She provided care that was compassionate, kind and professional. One hopes that in the future I can embody the qualities that Susie had and display them to my patients on a daily basis. In nursing school we are so focused on knowing the science behind everything or getting our medication out in time that we forget why we became nurses in the first place. We became nurses so we could care for others that could not care for themselves. Susie was the true definition of a nurse and provided patient centered compassionate care to Vivian allowing her to die in a dignified and meaningful way.
The discussion about what palliative care really is was brought up and how there are so many different perspectives people can have with the idea of palliative or hospice care. The same idea pertained to physician assisted suicide and what really makes that right and wrong. The book then begins to talk about multiple stores that were similar to Kim and Amy’s. Cases that were similar were mentioned, such as the three nurses who worked for Veterans Affairs Medial Canter and how they all had high mortality rates during the times that they worked along with more cardiac related deaths that
Ethical issues arise daily in the healthcare world. The manor in which issues are addressed vary. “There are, it might be said, as many histories of nursing ethics as there are individual ethicists and professional or cultural contexts” (Guildford 2010, p.1). “A code of ethics is a fundamental document for any profession. It provides a social contract with the society served, as well as ethical and legal guidance to all members of the profession” (Lachman 2009, p.55). According to Lachman, since the original ANA Code from 1950, the significance of service to others has been consistent. Two changes in the code have occurred since the original. First, not only the patient is being treated, but the family and community where they live are also considered.
The nursing profession is formed upon the Hippocratic practice of "do no harm" and an ethic of moral opposition to ending another human’s life. The Code of Ethics for nurses prohibits intentionally terminating any human life. Nurses are compelled to provide ease of suffering, comfort and ideally a death that is coherent with the values and wishes of the dying patient, however; it is essential that nurses uphold the ethical obligations of the profession and not partake in assisted suicide. (King, 2003)
The nursing health field didn’t start as professional and organized as it is today. It started long away in the 19th -20th century; with a lady named Florence Nightingale. She was well known for her night rounds to help assist the wounded soldiers. She was known as, “Lady with the Lamp” (Potter & Perry, 2015 pg.106). What we are learning in school today is about the fundamental of patient care, cleanliness, and management is the legacy of Florence Nightingale. According to Fundamentals of Nursing by Yoost and Crawford, it stated that nursing profession has elevated to a higher degree of professionalism and respectability. I believe that professionalism is required in the working place. As a professional nurse, I’m expected to
Media has had many changes in the past years. Growing up I remember my mom saying that we were lucky to have color televisions now. She would say that when she was younger she would have to hear her stories and games over the radio because back then there was no televisions. Another way of getting entertained was reading stories. The newspaper and the radio was the only way of getting news back then. I thought it was funny when my mom told me that since they were one of the few families that had a television in the neighborhood, she would charge the kids 10 cents to watch television in her house. This was actually a pretty smart thing to do.
The issue of the relationship between the mass media and the popular culture has always been a controversial issue in social sciences. The political economists insist on the role of the media industry in the creation of this phenomenon of the twentieth century. Though, advocates such as John Fiske, argue that popular culture is actually the creation of the populous itself, and is independent of the capitalist production process of the communication sector. Basing his argument on the immense interpretive power of the people, Fiske believes that the audience is able to break all the indented meanings within a media message. He also believes- by giving new meanings to that specific message they can oppose the power block that is trying to impose its ideology to the public. Consequently, this anarchistic activity of the audience creates the popular culture as a defence mechanism. Even when we accept Fiske’s ideas, we can not disregard the manipulative power of the media and its effects on cultural and social life.
It's clear to see the media focuses on various reports, television shows, and even sitcoms regarding all forms of psychology. While watching television one can say media basically relies on psychology. The media of psychology views psychology through means of common sense versus an actual science. Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processed. Behavior is anything you do that can be observed. In the media we can observe people through the television screen. Through our observations we learn from their behavior. For example in a famous experiment conducted by Albert Bandura called, "Bobo Doll Experiment," a preschool child is working on a drawing. An adult in another part of the room is building with Tinkertoys. The child is watching this adult through a television screen and watches as the adult gets up and for nearly ten minutes pounds, kicks, and throws around the room a large inflated Bobo doll, while yelling hurtful sayings such as, "Sock him in the nose" or "Hit him down" and even "Kick him". After the adult was done, the child was taken to another room and demonstrated the same actions as they have seen through the television screen to the Bobo Doll. It's clear to see from the experiment the media teaches society many aspects of psychology. From a psychological aspect we see a child observing violent behavior from what the media has presented. Humans learn through observation and in a world where technology is advancing, the media plays a large role.
Full Movie, n.d). In the modern healthcare system, the changes in the ethics and professionalism as provided by the nursing code of ethics is relevant. Therefore, some individuals within the system may take time to accept the transformations and some may be unaware that change exists. Eventually, they end up noticing the change later as well as what is required of them as stated in the code of ethics. In one example, the code of ethics within the nursing professionalism necessitates that the nurse has to be willing to overlook certain aspects (social, career, and familial relationships) to aid the patient in full recovery. There are numerous alterations in the nursing code, and what is taught in medical school; therefore, the previously educated nurses should be aware of the modifications. A nurse known as Sarah had worked within the healthcare system for more than fifty years. Within her tenure, she experienced numerous changes in the code of ethics and what is taught within the system (Saver, 2006). By the time she could adjust the trends in alterations, it was late; hence, difficult for her to keep up with
As for the positive effects, I find it appropriate how the movie illustrates the struggles some people have to go through on a daily basis with the feelings, emotions, and their surroundings they endure. I mostly enjoy how they exhibit the recovery of it all. How even undergoing the hardest of struggles mentally, you can receive treatment for it, there are always people available, facilities willing to help that being as long as they are willing to try their very in return.
Several ethical principles that are incorporated in the nursing care of patients on a daily basis are nonmalificence, autonomy, beneficence, justice, fidelity and paternalism. Nurses should strive to comply to as many of the principles as possible. In this case there are principles which support and conflict with the wishes of the patient. The first principle that supports the wish of the patient is autonomy. Autonomy means that competent patients have the right to make decisions for themselves and the delivery of the healthcare that they receive. Another factor that would support the patient’s wish to not be resuscitated is nonmalificence. Non maleficence means that nurses should not cause harm or injury to their patients. In this case the likelihood of injury after resuscitation was greater than if the patient were allowed to expire. A principle that could have negatively affected the outcome of the provision of ethical care was paternalism. Paternalism is when a healthcare provider feels that they know what is best for a patient, regardless of the patient’s desire for their own care. I demonstrated the principle of paternalism because I thought that I knew what was best for the patient without first consulting with the patient or family. This situation might have had some very negative consequences had the patient not have been competent. Practicing a paternalistic mindset might have caused a practitioner in the same instance to force their ideas about not resuscitating the loved one onto the family. This could have caused a sense of remorse and loss of control of care amongst the