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    Gaining Compliance

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    Gaining Compliance: Gaining compliance is getting somebody to agree with a recommended course of action. For example in an antenatal ward, if a client comes in who is a smoker, you would try to get her to quit, without coercing. For example, a good thing to say would be “How about we try to cut down on cigarettes; today you can smoke 10, tomorrow you can smoke 5, and after that only 2, until you can quit. This is because it is healthier for your baby if you do not smoke in your pregnancy”.…

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    Patient Demographics

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    patients in the ward at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital. This is followed by the conclusion of the study, limitations, implication and recommendation from the study. 5.1 Demographic characteristics In this study, it was found that the majority of participants were female 134 (77.9%) with the male to female ratio 1:3.5. The majority of participants 58.7% had working experience from one to five years. This is similar to the study done in Singapore on “front line nurses experiences with deteriorating ward…

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    to train “The Black Boys”. Director, you must remember that this is your Ward, not Nurse Ratched 's. For “The Black Boys” specifically, they deserve to be trained properly, for not only the patients, but for their mental health and wellbeing. If they were to ever leave Nurse Ratched’s wing, they would be lost and brainwashed, and we as leaders in this society cannot let that happen. Please consider my efforts to make your Ward a safer and more just place for your employees and…

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    Cuckoo's Nest Policy

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    A Change in Ward Policy In the novel, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey, the protagonist, Randall Patrick McMurphy, demonstrates a quest of redemptive sacrifice in order to protect the patient 's in the psych ward from the antagonist, Nurse Ratched. Through McMurphy’s heroic endeavors such as attempting to change ward policy, he is able to establish his own identity and fulfill his destiny. McMurphy is the essence of what a leader should be. From the beginning the reader is made…

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    argued for religious toleration within the community. Although Nathaniel Ward, who was against toleration, fought tirelessly to save all Puritan beliefs with his written works and legal codes, men like Roger Williams and his arguments in support of religious toleration and separation of civil government and religion surpass any attempt made against him. . Being born to a Puritan minister, it was almost certain Nathaniel Ward would soon follow behind his father’s footsteps even after becoming a…

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    world within the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, in the 1960s. The psychiatric ward that Kesey’s characters reside in are a metaphor for class structure and society that existed in the 19th, 20th, and even the 20th century. He shows the negative effects of class structure in the world through his characters. The narrator, Chief Bromden, shows the readers the class structures that exist within the ward. Chief tells the readers about the Chronics, the Acutes, and the staff and shows which…

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    Mcmurphy Hero's Journey

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    realizes that Nurse Ratched is the enemy or nemesis of the ward and that she is limiting what the patients feel and think about themselves. As Oliverio states, “Mac can also be seen as a sort of circumstantial hero who had the least intention of becoming a hero, before being committed to that ward. Nevertheless, when he enters the ward, he automatically “occupies” the then vacant position of leader of that community." When McMurphy arrives on this ward, he sees those issues and decides that he…

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    The legacy he left behind helps to define his character. He left an impression, good or bad, on every single person in the ward. This is shown differently through each passage. Immediately as he strutted into the ward, the staff knew they were in for a treat. His body language and carefully crafted digs left the staff powerless in the end. As for the patients in the ward, McMurphy taught them to stand up for…

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    The three black boys on the daytime shift came to work at the ward all at different times. The first black boy to work on the ward was a dwarf (his growth stopped after watching his mother get raped) he is a violent natured man, proven by the fact that he wanted to carry a sock full of birdshot, to work patients into shape. The second and third…

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    the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, the author illuminates societies unfair treatment of the mentally ill. Through the perspective of a long time patient, Chief Bromden, the reader becomes a witness to the cruel treatment from the wards controller, Nurse Ratched. Chief Bromden’s meticulous description of each day illustrates the degrading and mechanical power of the ward’s authority as well as the vicious monotony that exploits the patients’ illness or assumption of one. Nurse…

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