The Shift | Full Length | Award Winning Movie | HD | Drama Film

It's strange, I picked this movie not knowing what it was about. This is the eve of my daughter's passing. She had metastatic breast cancer that spread throughout her body. All I could do was pray that her suffering would end. I was hoping she would beat it, but maybe deep down I knew she couldn't. So I prayed for her suffering to end. The last month of her life was spent in the hospital. It was not life. I miss her terribly but I'm relieved she's no longer suffering. She was 33. I love you, Bianca.

As an RN for 58 years, I agree. Love should be unconditional, and when patients choose DNRs, they should be honored, especially by Family.

As a heart transplant recipient nurses deserve all the respect ✊

For most of my working life, I was an unskilled laborer, which included working in a hospital as a housekeeper. I took advantage of a very small opportunity to change that. I actually became an urgent care technician. Eventually I transferred to the er. What a privilege to work with doctors and nurses. It was the BEST job I ever had. This movie brought back memories and a deep melancholy. In 2017, in "MY" er I was diagnosed with tonsil cancer. And by one of the docs I worked with. My cancer changed my life. Because of after effects, I was forced into retirement. It broke my heart. I remember doing compressions as well as performing EKG's during codes. It felt so satisfying, after being a manual laborer for so long, to do something so satisfying and to be a contribution in such an environment. I was even a licensed phlebotomist. It broke my heart to give it up. I loved the er and being able to do something I never dreamed I would ever do. So, I'm a little sad now ,but it's a great movie.

Retired RN...started in ER like Amanda. So true to life except for the meds are in pyxis and every dose accounted for, and never knew of anyone mercy killing a patient

This is heart wrenching. Watching someone suffer so much but allowing the selfishness of relatives keep them alive to suffer more. Little girl eaten away by cancer, woman atrophying right before the eyes, machines keeping a young man alive and comotose. My family, as much as we loved my mother, followed her wishes and did not resucitate.

My Mother began as an Army corp nurse. Then she put in 52 yrs in ICU and then as regular floor nurse. She died of cancer and was badly treated in her last days. Very few actually care about the patient nowadays. She was a stellar mother and excellent nurse. I miss her much.

I’ve been a nurse for 22 years. This movie is very impacting, and so true to life on every level. People cannot understand what this job does to you mentally, physically, emotionally… And also how it can save your own life if you allow it. Thank you for offering this. 🙏❤️

My poor grandmother was resuscitated several times before I found out about it. I threatened dad if he did it again. Two catholic men who just couldn't let mom go. Thank God he listened to me. She passed away peacefully just after I had seen her. I promised her they wouldn't do it again. Poor woman was so miserable each time they forced her back.

Did not know what I was getting myself into prior to watching this film, I’m moved by it.. a beautiful insight to a world nobody could ever fathom unless they’ve lived it. Thank you to all nurses.

My grandfather was in a coma for six weeks and cared for at home by medically trained relatives in his home. They were eating dinner when to their shock in walked grandpa and announced he was hungry. They got a quart of peaches which he ate entirely. Then they cooked him a meal and he ate it. He lived years after that. He had heart trouble.

I was not expecting to go through what I have just been through with this movie. It hit me hard. This is a film that will live inside of me, perhaps forever. Without revealing details I have had to make gut wrenching decisions identical to what was portrayed here, and sadly, a number of times. I am 77 now, although intellectually aware I was not, I thought all this time I was emotionally alone in these experiences. I find myself sitting home alone by myself, isolated deep in the woods on a mountain at 1:30 in the morning. It is dark and cold outside, and I am drained. This was a brilliant piece of work. I can’t decide if I should say thank you, but I will. Thank you. I don’t feel so alone right now.

I spent 30+ years of my life dedicated to Nursing. This is without a doubt the most realistic movie out of Hollywood I have ever seen with the exception of one thing...the DRUGS. They are not easy to get, are locked up and tracked, and they are never just floating around the unit and taken by all the nurses like that. I know there have been discrepancies, and drug theft, but it is quickly caught. All the rest is very accurate. I have worked at CPR on tiny infants, and I have helped deliver stillborns. I have cried, shaken, and sweated as I prayed through many shifts of critical care. I consider it all to be a profound honor. I have vomited more than I would like to remember, and we have all had the soul-wrenching feeling of dread to have to put a pt through the agony of a painful death because the family cannot let go. It is a world that the outside has no idea we live in on a daily basis. I came home from many shifts in shock and was unable to sleep for days. You cannot explain it to a family member that is not a nurse. They don't understand.

Forcing a person to just exist in a bed, tube feeding them etc, is the most selfish act another human can do to another human. The people who are forcing someone who is dying, in extream pain, suffering, can not communicate anymore (esp if they had a dnr). Are doing it for themselves because they cant let go, and get over the fact that those who are in a dnr situation are the sefless and considerate to not put loved ones through all that.

I had a near death on 11/25/09, it took me 3 months to recover from my accident, but God prevail, Love leads us all.

I worked in an overloaded, understaffed E.R. for years! This is the most realistic and definitely accurate SHIFT depiction I've seen on any film media!

Retired nurse after 50 years. Broken mentally and emotionally. Working 12 hour shifts without guaranteed breaks, loaded with number of patients no matter how many you already have and no matter how critical they are. New nurses often quit after experiencing the reality of nursing. WAY too many other ways for females to make a living now.

Loved the movie! I'm totally with Kayle... I think we humans become too selfish in our love that we'd rather have the person we love suffer than us suffering by losing them.

Fear of death creates pain and suffering. The horror of having a DNR and it not being respected is torture. Excellent film. I have been the idiot begging for my husbands life to be saved and they did save it; only for him to be in partial coma for 13 years, until he died. The family came together and we finally did the right thing. We let him go. Respect life. Respect death.

My mother had Alzheimer's and hospitalized with pneumonia. Her doctor spoke to my family about discontinuing antibiotics and food saying "pneumonia is an old man's friend". She was not in a coma, taking food on her own, and her organs were operating fine. I was the only one totally against this knowing it would impose a suffering I couldn't imagine. My family deferred to my wishes, she got over the pneumonia and lived three more months being well taken care of. I was there when she passed peacefully in her sleep.