The nurse.

Date:
1998
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About this work

Description

A series of documentaries about women at the top of the medical profession. This programme follows Ailsa Denney, an intensive care nurse, as she travels from a London children's hospital to the Congo and the aftermath of a coup, as she is also on-call to a medical relief agency. In London she is shown tending to a 3-year-old girl after heart surgery, and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, taking part in a measles vaccination campaign.

Publication/Creation

UK : BBC, 1998.

Physical description

1 videocassette (VHS) (50 min.) : sound, color.

Contributors

Notes

Broadcast 6 August, 1998

Creator/production credits

Produced and directed by Cathy Elliott, filmed by Stephen Foster, edited by Trevor Waite and narrated by Gina McKee.

Copyright note

BBC

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

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