Emergency! : a critical situation /

Overcrowding. Budget cuts. Massive layoffs and early retirement. After years of cutbacks and restructuring, how is our health-care system holding up? To find out, director Tahani Rached takes us to the emergency room for an inside look at the working lives of men and women who deal with the fallout...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	National Film Board of Canada (Producer)
Other Authors:	Michel, Eric (Producer), Rached, Tahani, 1947- (Director)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	This edition in French with English subtitles.
Published:	Montreal, QC : National Film Board of Canada, 1999.
Series:	Health and society in video
Subjects:	Nurses. Health services administration. Nurses Infirmières. Services de santé > Administration. Health services administration Documentaries and Factual Films Streaming videos. documentary film. Documentary films Documentary films. Documentaires.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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Summary:	Overcrowding. Budget cuts. Massive layoffs and early retirement. After years of cutbacks and restructuring, how is our health-care system holding up? To find out, director Tahani Rached takes us to the emergency room for an inside look at the working lives of men and women who deal with the fallout every single day: the ER nurses. Shot at the Pierre Boucher Hospital in suburban Montreal, this powerful film takes us into the emergency room. Emergency! A Critical Situation is a powerful indictment of management that sees only the bottom line. An orderly squirrels away snacks for ER patients to supplement the meagre two cartons of juice and five small packs of cookies the hospital doles out; nurses try to keep patients calm as waiting times stretch to six hours; tension mounts as staff try to determine who to see first--knowing that errors can prove fatal. While the nurses are bitter about being forced to work under such intolerable conditions, none would give up the profession. All are passionate about saving lives and doing their best to bring dignity to the chaos of the ER.
Item Description:	Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 15, 2014).
Physical Description:	1 online resource (52 min.).
Playing Time:	00:52:07
Production Credits:	Director/script, Tahani Rached ; producer, Eric Michel ; cinematography, Jacques Leduc ; sound, Marcel Chouinard ; editing, Helene Girard ; sound editing, Marie-Claude Gagne ; re-recording, Shelley Craig ; music, Rene Lussier ; participation, Nicole Beaupre, Jocelyne Dubois, Francine Charbonneau, Ghyslaine Fortin, Marie-Jeanne Gignac, Line Lafreniere, Johanne Lagace, Michel Loiselle, Rose Marie Mecarbane, Richard Poissant, Lucie Proteau, Julie Saint-Laurent, Daniel Lefrançois, Sylvie Maguire, Caroline Richard, Claude Rivard, Patsy Sab, Lyne Santerre, Odette Savoie, Dany Vachon, Alain Vadeboncoeur, Sonia Wauthier.