The Patients in the ward have not known independence since being taken to the ward. They are under the control of the Big Nurse; she is the person that runs the ward with an iron grip. The Patients, sorted into groups of Acutes and Chronics (Chronics are the vegetables that can do little to nothing for themselves while Acutes are still mobile and not completely insane), cannot think for themselves because of the drugs the Nurse has them take putting them in a kind of “fog” as it is described by Chief, a Chronic in the ward that is pretending to be deaf. The Big Nurse keeps the patients under control with her strict schedule they follow and punishes them with guilt.…
The Nurse Practioner Tim Evans wanted a report to be made, due to the concerns for the kids. According to the physician’s computer system, Kayla has been doctor shopping for different narcotics. It was unknown if she was using it or selling them. According to the reporter, Kayla does not weight much to be taken that amount of medications. In August 2015, she went into the office with a swollen and bruised left hand. She originally stated she slammed it in a washer lid, while doing laundry. She later told Tim that she hit someone with her hand. On February 4, 2016, Kayla went into the office, and she was black and blue from head to toe with bruises, mostly to her left side. She stated she had fallen on February 2, 2016. Kayla called back on…
The article, "We Need More Nurses", was written by Alexandra Robbins for the New York Times on May 28, 2015. This article is listed as an op-ed article, or opinion editorial, meaning that it was written to state the opinion of an outside author not affiliated with the newspaper. Robbins specifically wrote this article as a response to her book, The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital, which tells of stories inside one of New York City's most prestigious hospitals and how they "cope" with the nursing shortage. The book follows the story of a nurse, given the fake name Molly, and how she deals with the decline in patient care due to hospital understaffing…
In school, we have a principal who is basically our head leader that sets the rules and the teachers are who enforce them. In the novel, Nurse Ratched is the main leader or “principal” of the psych ward and the nurses are like the “teachers” (10). Nurse Ratched is very controlling and sticks…
Philip throughout the journal article explains the influence Nurse Ratched has on the nursing practice. The author begins with great examples of people who were nurses, such as Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell. Then he goes on to point out that Nurse Ratched is the nontheist of what nurses should become. Then he describes how Nurse Ratched was a terror because ahe acted unlike the females of her time. He goes on and show how Nurse Ratched was an emasculator to the men in the ward. Philp, then shows why Nurse Ratched was prevacid a suppressive and then how McMurphy destroys her front. I could this information to show specifically how Nurse Ratched was an emasculator. Soe for the information can be additional to how some of the men in the…
how the nurse is able to manipulate the emotions of the patients at the ward and…
Nurse Ratched is the main source of power and authority in the ward. She has complete control over all of the patients and staff. Although she is technically under the supervision of Doctor Spivey, she still possesses the ability to control him as well. When McMurphy is first admitted to the hospital, his confident, stubborn attitude poses a threat to the Nurse. This threat only motivates her more, showing her representation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s theory, the will to power. Nietzsche believes that everything and everyone is driven by power and that anything else is sick and decadent. Nietzsche says that “The world is the will to power-and nothing besides! And you yourselves are also this will to power- and nothing besides!” During a therapeutic meeting in the hospital, McMurphy is able to attract…
Nurse Ratched used to work as a nurse in the military, indicating she would act tough and keep everything well ordered like anything in the military, but when running a mental hospital the caretakers have to act extremely kind. Unfortunately, Nurse Ratched shows no mercy and she acts the same way with the mental patients as she would have in the military. This means everything must go exactly her way and nothing goes without a consequence. Broaden, the narrator describes her by saying, “The Big Nurse tends to get real put out if something keeps her outfit from running like a smooth, accurate, precision-made machine. The slightest thing messy or out of kilter or in the way ties her into a little white knot of tight-smiled fury. She walks around with that same doll smile crimped between her chin and her nose and that same calm whir coming from her eyes, but down inside of her she’s tense as steel” (Kesey 22). Not only does she run the mental hospital with precision, but she also inflicts terrible punishments on the patients who step out of line.…
During one of the Group Meetings before McMurphy arrives, Nurse Ratched is using her tricks to make the patients admit how they feel and say what they had done. She says, “‘Am I to take it that there’s not a man among you that has committed some act that he has never admitted?’ She reached for the log book. ‘Must we go over past history?’”(45). After using the tactic of fear, all of the patients start talking about everything they had done. At this point in the book, Nurse Ratched holds all the power within the ward. She can make the patients do almost anything she wants them to do. Chief has always seen Nurse Ratched the same; he sees her as a scary, powerful nurse who has control over his life. The first mentioning of Nurse Ratched is at the very beginning of the book. Chief hears her coming and thinks, “I know it’s the Big Nurse”(4). It is not the context of the quotation or what happens in the quotation that matters. It is what Chief calls the Nurse. Because she is the one in charge of the entire ward and holds the most power, at that moment, she is known as the “Big Nurse.” Not only does she literally have the word “Big” in her name, but it is capitalized, which adds onto her repeated motif of size. Unfortunately for her, Chief is able to change his perception of her “almighty”…
with patients. When an unexpected outcome occurs, it is prudent to explore the occurrence and…
Nurse Ratched is the one who oppresses the male patients from their freedoms by excluding them from the outside world and from their sexuality. When McMurphy arrives to the ward, he immediately tries to take Nurse Ratched’s power away from her by defying all of her…
Nurse Ms.Ratched keeps everything in order and control. Nurse Ratched appears to be caring and well intentioned, yet she is calculating. She keeps patients scared of her by knowing each patients weakness. Seizing patient’s self-confidence with threats. Constantly making a difficult situation even worse for some patients through therapy sessions. With her “therapy” the patients not only confront the presence and responsibility of a problem they also encourage and worsen it by reflecting that they are the problem. Doing nothing to reduce the burden and instead blowing it out of all proportion. Her goal is to keep patients believing they need to stay by keeping them unstable. Ms.Ratched seems to enjoy the weaknesses of others and strengthens from the torment they go though.…
Nurse Ratchet, the novel’s antagonist maintains her power on the ward by doing whatever it takes to make sure that they listen to her. She shames new people to keep them submissive, and also manipulates her staff through insinuation, and by carefully stroking their hatred. Chief Bromden comments, “Even the best-behaved Admission is bound to need some work to swing into routine, and, also, you never can tell when just that certain one might come in who's free enough to foul things up right and left, really make a hell of a mess and constitute a threat to the whole smoothness of the outfit” (page 37). He then goes on to explain that, “...the Big Nurse gets real put out if anything keeps her outfit from running smooth.” Nurse Ratchet feels she needs to do some work on the new admissions to keep them from upsetting the current system that she has in place. She manipulates the patients’ desires and fears to keep them submissive towards the system.…
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While researching texts written and published about Nurse Practitioners, I have found that Nurse Practitioners are rapidly becoming the top health partner choice for many Americans. Nurse Practitioners have been servicing patients for over forty years. The NP role had its initiation in the mid-sixties in response to a lack of physicians in the United States.They can perform very extensive and concentrated examinations; distinguish and treat common keen illnesses, as well as laboratory tests; and educate and instruct patients and their loved ones about maintaining a healthy lifestyle and possible health care options. In all fifty states Nurse Practitioners are allowed to prescribe medications to patients, including controlled substances. Only twenty-six states allow Nurse…