
Plot
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.
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Cast

Lafayette Ballard
Self

Stephen Bloesl
Self (as Sister Stephen Bloesl)

Jason Cross
Self

Namoi Cross
Self

Nathan Cross
Self

Elizabeth Elam
Self

Tonia Faust
Self

Lydia Fletcher
Self

Darrell Gertenschologer
Self

Carolyn Jones
Self (voice)

Dane Kaimuloa
Self

Brian McMillion
Self

Mary Prater
Self

Mia Regalado
Self - Narrator

Jason Short
Self - Appalachian Hospice Nurse

Felix Trent
Self

Paul Trent
Self

Rebecca Trent
Self