I can work wherever in the world I want to work. The video short features nursing students talking about the reasons behind their decisions, and offers viewers scenes of nurses at work, set to a rapid, MTV-paced visual style that the association thinks teens will appreciate. They were the ones who were going to sell it peer to peer. The video stresses several issues, with special emphasis on the difference that nurses make in people s lives. One student said that when you re dealing with life and death, a patient would remember you forever.
People often look to the nurse as an emotional buoy in tense situations.
Mancino adds that students often know they want to join the field because they had a positive experience with a nurse as a youngster. But the video had to go beyond that and address specific opinions that young people have raised in focus groups. Things that are disgusting, I think especially with teen-agers. Kids demurred on the topic of nursing for other reasons as well, said Dennis Sherrod, Ed. D., RN, associate director of the North Carolina Center for Nursing, who lent his focus group research to the association.