Prison Diaries Movie Analysis

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The short film I watched mainly focused in a prison environment where floods affected the state prison as an epidemic of typhoid fever broke out among inmates. There were not enough doctors available to assist the regular prison physician, so three nurses arrive to assist him and administer vaccines. At the same time, a group of prisoners plan an escape. Eventually, the prison physician becomes ill and a prisoner who once was a doctor takes over him. However, he is then forced at gunpoint to help out with the prison break. When the authorities assume he was involved in the plan, the prisoners are killed leaving no one to testify in his favor. The nurse who he falls in love with ends up giving him a sense of hope that he could be freed. Overall, the movie develops through a series of events …show more content…

I believe nurses were accurately depicted in the film I watched. A correctional nurse cares for and treats inmates in correctional facilities. The position requires nurses to attend the needs of vulnerable and incarcerated patients. These nurses attend health as they perform routine and emergency medical procedures for detainees. They offer their services with objectivity and respect because every patient should be treated as one despite their poor choices in the past. In the film, the nurses help to treat those who are severely ill and give vaccinations to the remaining inmates. However, there is a point in the film where the physician admits wanting to have another doctor when the three nurses arrive to assist him. I feel like at times nurses are perceived as inferior in the medical field or looked down upon by doctors. Also, I believe they are often underestimated by them. In this case, the physician prefers having another doctor even after three nurses were sent to help since he was on his own. They still managed to keep everything under control even after the physician passes away which was no surprise since nurses are taught to be responsible with or without

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