Key Highlights
- I was in New York at the time, and it was so clear the importance of nurses and what was going on in these wards and how traumatic it was and also, how quickly it was forgotten afterwards.
- The world just moved on but the problems remain the same.
- A lot of nurses are burnt out and traumatized with PTSD.” She continued: “The statistics that you can read in the newspapers are quite clear: there are not enough nurses in the U. S.
- It’s like, very intentionally, hospitals are understaffed to make more profit.
- This just kept brewing and simmering in me and I felt it was a really important topic to look at from a filmmaker’s perspective, also a feminist perspective and a political perspective.” Watch on Deadline Late Shift, which is Switzerland’s submission for the International Oscar category this year, centers on Floria (Leonie Benesch), a nurse who navigates the relentless pace on a surgical ward with unwavering dedication, infusing humanity and warmth into her patient care even though the shift is understaffed.
