The Contraction Of Time: A Brief History Of Nursing

Nursing is medical a field which encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of different age, families, group, and communities in aid of facilitating the medical wellness of the individual. The history of nursing and its origin in the USA sets back in the early 1900s. Nursing history is the longest this because it traces a long history which sprouted from the USA hence it explains the perspectives of nursing work that is regarded as the most caring and respected profession. Nursing history teaches that is primarily emotional and relational. For example, in the case of the film, it shows that the nurses are not well cared by the relevant authority. In that, they are not well paid, and also they are not well cared in the social amenities that motivate them to perform their work.

The documentary involves contemporary interviews, dramatic readings, film clips, drawings and still photographs about sentimental women characterized in traces of the history of nursing from since its military beginning to present.

The documentary depicts America's largest group of professional nursing women with comprehensive and compelling exploration and sometimes fanciful mythology characterized with the field of nursing since its inception in the mid-19th century. The contraction of time outlines the essence of modern technology that threatens to displace the compassion that has always been at the heart of the profession. Exploitative characters are depicted in the film; the racial and sexual discrimination, with which nursing has had to contend. It also documents the part played by student nurses in cleaning up early American hospitals, nursing's great contribution to public health, and the continuing difficult and essential role of nurses in the military. A large degree of humor and poignant are some of the impression of the sentimental women with the multilayered portrait of

characters.
A close assessment of the film depicts discriminative behavior between the patients and the nurses in an exploitative interaction within their working environments. Aggressiveness and indiscriminate care to some extent contribute to the high rate of mortality.
A nurse in the military ward, for instance, provokes the ailing patient who intern react aggressively thus worsening her health condition. The nurse in this ward does not show that compassionate care to their patients to manage their medical needs. The counter behaviour of the patient's reaction observed in the documentary may be linked to the nurses` medical knowledge, emotional intelligence, professional skills, and the management of the medical facility.
In my opinion, nursing is one of the professional medical skills that plays a significant role in the transformation of any sick individual; whether spiritual, medical physical emotional and psychological. Good nursing skills should provide clinical judgment in the provision of care to enable people improve, maintain, or recover their health or cope with their health problems. On the other, nurses need to be well taken care of by being motivated, provided within quality skills, provision of quality equipment's that will enhance the delivery of quality services.
We live in a new era of advanced technology, scientific innovation on a rise, healthy life on risk due to increase in disease any many factors degrading human life, in all this, protection, promotion and optimization of human health should be our priority advocate for a healthy individual, families, and community. Nurses are the central players in the achievement of these goals through their unique professional skills of care and compassion for life.