My Cap Is My Crown

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Mount Sinai Hospital (Cleveland Ohio). Women's Auxiliary.

Complete Record: Relates a high school girl's hospitalization experience and its impact on her future, explaining that while she is a patient she becomes interested in the student nurses and their activities. Depicts a program in a nursing school with university affiliation A young girl injures herself at school and is taken to the hospital in an ambulance. At the hospital she is treated for a broken leg and observes the nurses as they dress her wounds, bring her food and bathe her. In between shots of the young girl being cared for by nurses, there are segments of the nurses being trained for various roles in the hospital: dressing wounds, preparing food, caring for newborns, administering injections, how to walk on crutches. The private lives of the nurses are featured; one nurse is driven to work by her husband and takes her chid to day care, the nurses have lunch together, go swimming, go on dates, go to ball games, night clubs, go to formal parties. The nurse are shown going to lectures and doing lab experiments. A nurse prepares to assist a surgery. A group of nurses are in a room being taught how to properly wear their nurses cap