Caring Appalachian Nurse Keeps Poor Folks Alive. A Hero To Me
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
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In rural America nurse practitioners (NPs) play a crucial role in providing healthcare services, particularly in areas where there may be a shortage of physicians or limited access to medical care. Nurse practitioners are highly trained advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) who are qualified to provide a wide range of healthcare services.
I was hired to make a one hour documentary on “Great American Nurses". This is a clip taken from that film.
Uncovering Mona in the rural Appalachian community of Mt. Morris, Pennsylvania was a fortunate find. She proved to be extraordinary, as were her patients. Among other things, she and other nurse practitioners in rural area do a variety of things a doctor might be responsible for.
Primary Care: Nurse practitioners are often necessary as primary care providers, offering services such as health assessments, diagnosis and treatment of common illnesses and injuries, preventive care, and health education.
Chronic Disease Management: NPs can manage chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, and others by monitoring patients, adjusting medications, providing education on lifestyle modifications, and coordinating care with other healthcare providers.
Prescriptive Authority: Depending on state regulations, nurse practitioners may have prescriptive authority to prescribe medications, including controlled substances, within their scope of practice.
Minor Procedures: Nurse practitioners can perform minor procedures such as suturing wounds, removing sutures, administering injections, and conducting basic diagnostic tests.
Women's Health Services: Many nurse practitioners specialize in women's health and provide services such as well-woman exams, contraceptive counseling, prenatal care, and menopausal management.
Pediatric Care: NPs can provide pediatric primary care services, including well-child visits, vaccinations, and treatment of common childhood illnesses.
While nurse practitioners have a broad scope of practice and can provide many of the same services as physicians, there are some limitations. For instance, nurse practitioners may not have the same level of training or expertise in certain specialized areas, and there may be restrictions on their ability to perform certain procedures or prescribe certain medications depending on state regulations.
The medical care situation in Appalachia faces several challenges in accessing healthcare, including a shortage of healthcare providers, limited access to healthcare facilities, and higher rates of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and obesity compared to the national average. Additionally, socioeconomic factors such as poverty, lack of health insurance, and transportation barriers can further complicate access to medical care for residents of Appalachia.
Appalachian poverty is a complex issue influenced by various factors including historical economic challenges, limited job opportunities, lack of access to quality education and healthcare, and environmental factors such as coal mining and its decline. Poverty rates in the Appalachian region tend to be higher than the national average, with some areas experiencing severe economic deprivation.
Mount Morris, Pennsylvania, is considered part of Appalachia, particularly the southwestern region. The poverty level and rural nature of Mount Morris shares many characteristics common to other parts of Appalachia, including economic challenges, limited access to resources, and a rural landscape.
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I’m a nurse in Hawaii I drive over 5 volcanoes to care for children and elderly patients. I love my patients.
5? Nah you trippin 😂💀
Wheres your documentary?
Well done. Love in your heart
The roads would be a lot easier. Faster too, I bet.
@@daniellap.stewart6839---- I can tell Miss Daniella Stewart has never been to Hawaii before and has absolutely no knowledge or information about it LOL 😂😂😂😂
If only billionaires had the mind to be true humanitarians like her and her team.
Exactly
Billionaires are too busy building big buildings with their names on.🏗🏛
And pay their goddamn taxes
Should be a law that when one makes over certain amount a % must be given to enable healthy hopeful living for those who have little or little access
Nurses are truely angels on earth, at least the older generations of them!!!
The new generation is screwed up 9 ways from Sunday. Good luck finding a nurse like this now. Wish I was old and on my out rather than entering middle age.
I completely agree! My mom's a retired RN and she's disgusted by the medical field. These young nurses are a joke,no bed side manner,can't even give out meds properly and look like they just rolled out of bed. It's kept me from going to our local hospital because I know who hires the nurses and she shouldn't be doing anything but flipping burgers.
Salt of the earth people. ❤😊as a home health nurse that covered the Ozarks. It was absolutely the most rewarding of my long nursing career. Will never forget meeting some really great people. This gal is amazing! She has so much heart and energy. God bless her!
This queen deserves MANY crowns!
These woman are about to be even more valuable with the lowering of med school students. Blessings to these people
Mona has a quality that I like in a health care worker whether that be a doctor or nurse, or others is "excellent bedside manners." Thank you, Mona, for letting David Hoffman and his crew tag along on your daily rounds. 😊
I love when ordinary folks become extraordinary folks by the work they do for others.😊
My mom was friends with Mona Counts since the 1960’s. Now that they’re both gone, the world is much poorer without them. Both were fantastic nurses.
I live in Appalachia, not a local, and a friend who moved here to retire once asked me where all the poor people are. I said “Do you think those families in Walmart, wearing shorts and t-shirts in the cold, are just warm blooded?” Here, low-paid teachers nevertheless buy students jeans, sweatshirts, jackets, socks and shoes.
God bless those people. They are the soldiers of God. 🙏🦋💯‼️
I'm grateful to know many Home Healthcare Nurses here in the Ohio River Valley, they're very special people✌
My wife has been a hospice nurse for 15 years and has been working at the VA for almost 18 years. Her dedication reminds me of my wife. Thank you so much for posting this video. Especially for nurse week shout out to all the wonderful nurses out there.
NURSES ARE ANGELS STRAIGHT FROM HEAVEN 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I love how she truly cares!❤
I wish you would come spend a few days with a NP here in the county I live in, in Georgia. She is so much like Mona. She really loves her patients and she is as knowledgeable as any doctor. This community has a few NP'S but Connie Witt is the best there is!
God Love her!
More like heaven on Earth Appalachia. When I traveled in Guatemala Lake Atitlan, I noticed that it is at an area that looks like our Appalachia. Except they have some pine trees that they're trying to replenish before it goes extinct. Every town presents special skills crafts incredible arts making money projects from the natural dyes and clays the weaving like North Georgia makes quilts available on the front yards and front porches they have weaving blooms at private bed and breakfast homes with stores and gardens everywhere, local made garments of local made weaving incredible pottery artwork painted on canvases and in wonderful edible landscaping.
❤❤❤… I believe this life isn’t for the faint of heart.
We need more angels like her ❤️
I'm glad some people still seem to care about the elderly and disabled.
God bless this nurse. Well , ALL NURSES!❤
Mona, you are helping, saving and Loved.✔️.
Thank you David
Love these short pieces! We are in medicine and use real healing methods, not toxic, no unwanted side effects, and what we do actually heals the body. Moving away from modern medicine to truly understanding wellness and real healing of the body is going to boon. Right now there are many who are toying with how to transition but there will be healing knowledge and effective treatment and guidance available on this planet, finally. It’s coming. We are fortunate that this is our advocacy and our work. LOVE is always the best medicine. That is what this nurse is giving. Let’s move on to more of what actually works in medicine (healing and health) so that we all can have EASE of access to the healing that is coming more and more available in mind and body on planet earth. It won’t be an insurance controlled type of thing either. In the mean time, nurses and docs and caregivers, drape your arms around those who are in your care.
Saw this in nursing school years before I ever found your channel.
i was a RN for a few decades......this Mona is a diamond, saint
I’ve found when we help others we help ourselves
These nurses are angels on earth ❣
Great documentary. People shown as real and not too much narration.
Great story! Her patients are lucky to have her.
I live in an area in Appalachia where medical care is strained. I was sick for over a week and couldn’t get into the dr. Told to go to walk in or we. Walk in was full until closing. Brings me to a point where many have moved here from florida etc full time. Many didn’t research lack of healthcare before they moved here. They just looked at cost of homes, taxes, low cost of living. Now, they flood the system even more and don’t understand the lack of doctors, etc.
Excellent video! Thank you! Thank you to all of the ones out there like this dear lady. We need more… it takes a very special person. God bless her.
Do these drs and nurses have a gofund me account for helping with the costs of helping?❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I grew up in the fifties, in Cos Cob, CT. Appalachia has always been poor
Thank you, David.
Love is powerful and full of beauty. What a dedicated nurse!!
🙏❤️🌍🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵
Doing gods work!!😊god bless her and keep her.
Thank you for sharing. What wonderful people! 🙏🏼♥️ ☮
I lovr the lady at the 3:00 mark. She had high hopes for life and the world. The world let her down and she'll be remembered.
I wish this was an option where I live. Insomnia and we live in a retirement area and so many drunk/drugged or don’t speak English so driving to wrong way. so I’m afraid to drive.
Nurses give better care than most doctors in my experience. Lord help us and come soon
A true hero Thank you David ❤
Thanks!
Thank you for your support.
David Hoffman filmmaker
I worked as the only nurse in a remote northern community. I did it all pretty much back then. I even worked on pets and held vaccine clinics for dogs and cats. I even did home visits by boat or snow mobile to clients living in the bush. I slept very little those days and often kept patients going for days on end, it seemed before the weather would clear to medical them out. I would not trade those experiences in for anything. Some very wonderful friendships still last to this day.
Hats off to this incredible and valuable nurse. ❤
Lord bless her. Humans are humans and I suspect she just loves people to do what she does.
My theory is that this is the case for lack of a nail, these very beautiful souls do it without many nails.but at what cost…
What a sweetheart I’m so moved by her kindness ❤
In God’s estimation, this Nurse is a picture of true and profound beauty.
She’s wonderful!!!! Need more of her!!!!
Thank you for caring. God bless you.
Really great video , appreciated dedication 🥰❤️👍
I was once married to an Appalachian nurse, odd thing is all she was worried about is making money……
So many Saints in one video - Mona (of course) and the concerned fella who helped be a caretaker for his widower buddy with Alzheimer's. stand out... these gems from the Hoffman archive continue to inspire me!❤
Thank you for helping❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
God bless Mona and all of our nurses including my daughter Emily ❤
A grand nurse.. kinburn Ontario Canada God bless.
Salt of the earthvi live in a part of Appalachia and wisg we had a nurse or doctor like this that cared the ones around here don't carecabout you your just a number and if you don't have the $100 - 150 dollars to walk through the door you don't get the care and if your able to pay that your treated like cattle its not like it use to be with a one on one careing doctor. I'DA JUST ASOON NOT GO AS TO BE TREATED THAT WAY! But there are home health nurses and aids that will come out from the health department to see patients that are purty good you'll get the occasional one that you have to watch out for that will still from you.
I hope those who are in this situation are utilizing the drug programs offered by the pharmaceutical companies for the indigent who live below poverty level such as Merck, the Medicine Chest, to help with their medications. God bless her and those who work with the indigent. You are your brother’s keeper.
I would love it if you could add a year or dates to your videos. Thank you for this treasure trove of historical data
What an angel 🙏❤️🥰👍
nice
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Never stop 💯✔️👌❤️
I commend this wonderful woman for what she does. But I take exception to calling this area medically underserved. Mt. Morris, PA is a 15 minute drive from Ruby Memorial Hospital, the largest hospital in WV. I live 2 hours from there, but travel there frequently to see specialists I wish I lived 15 minutes away. There are many physicians in that area. I live in a very poor area in WV, but with the proper guidance most people have access to medicaid and other sources of insurance for people at and below the poverty line.
Im Irish and that first woman could be from any town here in ireland!
A lot of Irish people settled in Appalachia. I’m from East Tennessee and there are a lot of people who look Irish where I grew up. My family has been in Appalachia for many generations. I did a DNA test and my ancestors came from Ireland, England and Scotland. That wasn’t a surprise!
@@teresahiggs4896 Yes ... I find genetics fascinating !
Very dedicated individual! I like stories like hers because they show us there are many good people in this world. Thanks for highlighting this wonderful woman, David. 😊🩵
A f@#king Angel.
Hi David 👋
What year was this?
I was thinking the same thing. I think sometime in the late 80's to early 90's, I wonder how far I'm off.
Late 90s - early 2000s is my guess
This film was made in 2003.
David Hoffman filmmaker
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker thank you for responding. I love your channel. I find it all so interesting💜
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmakerThank you Mr. Hoffman ♥️
In the richest country in all of history.
And the elitists paying exorbitant money to attend the Met gala that is a charity for a museum that doesnt need the money …. How about that money go to fund a clinic for these poor folks
Oh my goodness... wish I had mega bucks to help all these people.
Wish that Gates and Bezos would donate.
This is a great video of Dr. Counts, thank you. Would you please provide the year it was filmed? I know she passed away in 2019. She was a national leader in the nurse practitioner movement for many years.
2006 approximately.
David Hoffman filmmaker
There is an Organization, called
HEALTH WAGON.
They have a Medical Wagon that takes care of People who cant afford to see a Dr.
Healthcare should be free of charge, like it is in Europa
It’s ot free, the tax payers pay for it with higher taxes. And as in the UK there can be long waiting lists for certain procedures. People who can afford it pay for the care out of pocket. People have died waiting for these procedures .
It’s not free 😂
@MABchevy vastly better for the European poor than the US system
the gentleman said his compression socks would be like $85, we get my husbands, 20-30, at Walgreens for $15 a pair.
I was born in Newark, New Jersey sorta a shoe box 😊
I can see Aunt Georgie doing this.
Can’t afford a patch, but can afford two packs of cigs per day. Goodness, I sure hopes she can see how quitting could save her life to live longer. Smoking is a terrible addiction.
What era is this from?
Present. These are the people I know. It could be a couple years old. But nothing has changed.
2005.
David Hoffman filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker 2005 Really???. 2005 would have been the very start of the OxyContin epidemic. in that area. 2008 I had sever leg stiffness for no reason. Doctors was willing to give me pain pills rather then pull blood. When blood got ran it turned out to be B cell Lymphoma. During Rchop chemotherapy. My friends kept telling me complain of pain and get the best Narcotic they will give you. I really don't remember what the pills were. But I do remember I got $15 for each one on the street.
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USA is an absolute disgrace. A very wealthy country. Europe....majority of medical care and meds are free. Hospitals are free also. If your poor....all costs are covered. England...no charge to visit your Doctor. Thank God l live in Europe
Obese with COPD and still smoking 2 packs a day??? Unbelievable
I will accept medical advice from a witch doctor with a bone through his nose before listening to so called medical professionals in this day and age.
Why?
That Alzheimer’s test seems to me you’d have to be pretty much involved to get a failing grade rather than the beginning of Alzheimer’s.
David this video is inappropriate
Why do you think so? It’s true I see that taking place all the time.
How would this video be inappropriate? I assume that the people featured gave their permission to be filmed.
@@victorbarclay7990 figure it out dude it’s clearly wrong
Well, since I am a native of Appalachia, born and bred in East Tennessee. My ancestors have been in Appalachia since before this country WAS a country, and my family is still there …………I feel I have the right to say something about this.
There isn’t anything wrong with this video. Appalachia is poor, most parts anyway. There is nothing shameful about being poor .The filmmaker is drawing attention to these mostly forgotten people.
Applachian people are a proud, strong people. They aren’t always begging for benifits, for most of them ( the older folks especially) taking charity is shameful. They want what they earned ( social security) or what they were promised ( veterans benifits ) , or compensation for being hurt. ( like from the coal mines)
There are many poor areas in America. Instead of trying being all cool and enigmatic saying “ figure it out dude” . Why don’t you share what YOU feel is inappropriate.
Why don’t you go and do something that makes a difference to these people or any group of poor people. Donate to a food bank, volunteer for some program that helps poor folks.
Visit The Museum of Applachia in Norris Tennessee. They have cabins , and the tools that people used . Cades Cove is another good place to go and keep the history of Applachia.
@@jackkerouac1523no, it's not inappropriate but laudable
Question is; would they care about poor folks if they were gay or transgender, tho?
She made no distinction. Medicine was medicine to her.
David Hoffman filmmaker
i possibly can not know all of america but appalachians is where the people are still the most authentic and "the way it was". living in buckfluck-nowhere with few neighbors around will make people appreciate each other differently and more.
My family has lived in Appalachia, in East Tennessee for generations. We do have family to help in times of need. Family is very important to us. So is tradition. Not too many people keep the traditions alive.
But now families are scattered everywhere instead of just living a mile down the holler . Lots of the older folks dont want to leave, and can’t afford to leave .
I’m betting you have met a many hero.
Considering that I see ordinary people that's potentially heroes, yes I have.
David Hoffman filmmaker