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.
Lafayette Ballard
as Self
Stephen Bloesl
as Self (as Sister Stephen Bloesl)
Jason Cross
as Self
Namoi Cross
as Self
Nathan Cross
as Self
Elizabeth Elam
as Self
Tonia Faust
as Self
Lydia Fletcher
as Self
Darrell Gertenschologer
as Self
Carolyn Jones
as Self (voice)
Dane Kaimuloa
as Self
Brian McMillion
as Self
