The other patients finally had the courage to sign themselves out of the hospital, or at least of the ward. In addition, the doctors as well no longer feared her. However, McMurphy suffered for these changes, for he returned to the ward lobotomized. This left him much like the other vegetables, unresponsive, white faced and staring blankly. He chose this fate, for it was necessary to overcome the power of the nurse; to release her grasp on the patients of the ward.
It is calm and quiet. The problems all start when a man named McMurphy is admitted. Right away, he is loud and disruptive to the otherwise quiet institution. He quickly figures out how everything works and starts his attack. The woman in charge, Nurse Ratched, runs the institution like it should be run.
When McMurphy discovers that many of the patients are in the hospital because they don’t have the courage to get out into the real world he gets upset but also embarrassed because it is evident that Nurse Ratched’s therapy and methods to help the men are designed to undermine the little confidence they do have, not encourage it. In my opinion Nurse Ratched’s should be put into the asylum for abusing her authority and dehumanizing the patients and replacing it with blind conformity. McMurphy, is the person who sees everything that Nurse Ratched is doing. By showing the other patients how to create their own standards of sanity, McMurphy greets a bunch of institutionalized nervous wrecks back towards their humanity. McMurphy and I both think that society is corrupt and if you are no danger to yourself or society you are not insane, you may be different but you are most definitely not
This backfired on Nurse Ratchet in one discussion. When Randle figures out that the majority of the other patients are voluntary and can leave whenever they want he becomes enraged. Randle does not understand why the patients don’t stand up for themselves. This starts a riot between the patients and the orderly’s. This is when Randle also realizes that by standing up to Nurse Ratchet it is buying him more time in the hospital.
As kind and compassionate as nurses can be to their patients, they can be just as mean and hateful to their colleagues. With knowledge comes responsibility. Horizontal violence is prevalent in the nursing profession, and the experience of this behavior is psychologically distressing, threatening patient safety, nurse moral, and nurse retention. To understand how to eliminate lateral violence amongst nurses, we first have to understand exactly what it is. WHAT IS IT Lateral violence is a devastating phenomenon in the nursing workplace.
It represents imprisonment and this is made clear when the she says, “The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out”. (245) The imprisonment is created from the yellow wallpaper because the Jane repeatedly asks to remove it but isn’t allowed and she is confined to the room she despises due to the stubbornness seen from her husband. You can see Jane slowly descend into her madness with her hallucinations- “The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell." (248) “At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars!
In the first paragraph the author describes the narrators’ “ ill- concealed dubiety” and “ suspicion of bamboozlement ” to set a mood of uneasiness and suspense. The following sentences reinforce the fact that Yeshi’s methods are unorthodox to the hospital staff by describing his preparations, and making them feel like “ a soiled, uncouth lot”. Selzer’s words show the patient in a situation she did not want. He shows a patient that has been through so many examinations that they have “exterminated” all the suspense from her body. The author then portrays Yeshi as being in a state of serenity and being in-tune with himself.
During a predischarge visit, the case manager learns the patient received a notice of eviction on the day of admission. The most appropriate intervention for the case manager is to: a. cancel the patient’s discharge from the hospital. b. contact the landlord who evicted the patient to further discuss the situation. c. arrange a temporary place for the patient to stay until new housing can be arranged. d. document that the adverse medication reaction was feigned because the patient had nowhere to live.
The Nurse then reacted to the actions with multiple treatments of shock therapy. These actions displayed what the nurse can do. Then later on in the book McMurphy reacted to the other patients in an upset manner due to his ignorance of nurse Ratched actual power and what she is capable of. Nurse Ratched has the power to extended ones duration on the ward and can even provide patient with a lobotomy if
“Tom Robinson was her daily reminder of what she did. What did she do? She tempted a Negro.”(206) During the time of the trial people truly were racist and prejudiced. They wanted a separation between blacks and whites, and could not tolerate the mere thought of them being together intimately. “That Robinson boy was legally married, they say he kept himself clean, went to church and all that, but when it comes down to the line the veneer's mighty thin.