The army nurse War Department official film. Misc Military Nursing Released in the closing months of the Second World War, this film explores the work of the army nurse in part from the perspective of a wounded soldier. Intended to be shown to a variety of audiences including servicemen, nurses, and potential recruits to nursing, it has a reassuring message about the skill and effectiveness of the army nursing service. It also comforts its audiences with a story about the therapeutic uses of femininity. The film opens with a soldier wounded in action. Coming out of delirium, the first person he sees is a female army nurse, who smiles and winks at him. This therapeutic wink is the start of his road to recovery, and provides a cue for the narrator to talk about the uses of femininity in the healing process. The narrators explains that women mean safety, comfort, and home to the wounded man: the nurse’s touch and her voice instill hope. Received: (date unknown) as a donation from the U.S. Army. United States : War Office, 1945 United States. Army Pictorial Service. Instructional Film and Video Moving image 015 min. Black and white Live action nlm:nlmuid-9437337-vid 9437337 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9437337 OCLC: 31712286 English United States The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/