Synopsis
In this 1952 U.S. Navy Training Film (MN-7339), viewers get brief look at the work a Navy Commissioned Officer Nurse does in a military hospital. The film follows a nurse, Janet, from being commissioned to her first assignment at a Navy hospital, and ends with her second assignment at the Naval Medical Center San Diego. The film opens with Janet putting on her uniform and packing her room as she prepares to leave for her second assignment. Women take their oaths as they are commissioned as officers in the Navy. The nurses sit around in a room and listen to their indoctrination instructor (02:10). Janet gets a physical, and the film shows a few short clips of women bowling, playing tennis, and swimming. The nurses shop at the Navy compound (03:22). The women try on the new blue uniforms of Navy nurses. The film then shows them sitting in a classroom and studying an organization chart of the Navy hospital. Footage shows the sick and injured people in the hospital (05:04). A surgical team operates on a patient (05:53). Viewers also see general clinics, the newborn nursery, therapy tubs, a pharmacy, and the hospital kitchen. Janet walks onto Surgical Ward 3A (07:39), and meets with Dr. Strong, the Ward Medical Officer. Janet instructs the young corpsmen on the floor in the art of practical nursing. Janet watches as a corpsman carries out advanced nursing duties (12:13). More men gather around to watch a procedure. Janet and her patient care team tend to a man who just arrived in…
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- Running time
- 23 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- US Navy
- Navy Nurse
- 1952
- San Diego
- Stock Footage
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