Description: Segment 1 Shots of various wards and medical staff in a hospital. Presenter Pamela Armstrong introduces the film and explains that nurses are important members of a medical care team. A doctor talks about how nurses used to have much less responsibility but that now things have changed. A nurse talks about how involved the job is. A school of nursing is seen, with a class of student nurses learning about which medication to give before surgery. A student, Fiona, is seen learning from another nurse on the ward. They prepare a female patient for surgery together. She then learns how to scrub in for a surgery and helps out in the operating theatre under guidance from another nurse. An injured male motorcyclist with a broken leg arrives in an ambulance. A casualty nurse examines the leg and tells him it is broken. Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:05:59:13 Length: 00:05:59:13 Segment 2 The casualty nurse talks about how all the casualty staff work as a team. She is seen briefing a doctor about the injured motorcyclist. The doctor discusses nurses' new responsibilities. The nurse says that casualty nurses must occasionally be 'pushy' in getting a doctor to attend to a patient. The motorcyclist is taken to a ward, where a staff nurse talks to him and explains why he cannot drink anything. She talks about developing a close relationship with patients. A male nurse in a nursing class discusses a stroke patient who he has been taking care of. He is seen bathing the patient and talking about how he will cope at home with diminished use of his right side. The patient's wife visits and the nurse discusses her husband with her. The student nurse, Fiona, is seen in her third year of training teaching a first year student how to attach a drip. Time start: 00:05:59:13 Time end: 00:11:51:09 Length: 00:05:51:21 Segment 3 The male nurse says that nurses need to see patients as people and realise the effect of illnesses on their lives. Fiona is seen talking to a male patient about how long he will have to stay off work. The motorcyclist's sister arrives at the hospital and is reassured by a nurse. Another male nurse talks about a female patient who is not recovering and will die - he must tell her brother. Fiona talks about the trauma of informing families of a dying or dead relative. The motorcyclist is seen leaving the hospital. The nurses seen in the film discuss how training does not stop after three years, but how they can go on to specialise. They also discuss how rewarding the job is. Time start: 00:11:51:09 Time end: 00:18:10:22 Length: 00:06:19:13