Ward

his first descriptions of the ward illustrates an image of a “special despondent and accursed look that only our hospitals and prisons have” (Chekhov 171). Typically, hospitals and prisons are not institutions that are connected, but Chekhov juxtaposes them to show that the ward is not a place intended for mental healing as it should be, but essentially a prison where the troublesome and those with different ideologies can be kept. Andrei Yefimych’s outlook on the ward also supports its…

The purpose of this essay is to reflect on a specific experience on infection prevention and control encountered in a ward while on placement as a student nurse. Duffy (2008, p.1405), describes A reflective practice as an active and deliberate way of critically examining practice in a situation where one is challenged to undertake the process of self-inquiry. It helps an individual look back at an experience and how it makes him/her feel and react, asking what is good and bad and what can be…

the point of view of Chief Bromden, a very tall, schizophrenic man who has been at the ward for ten years. Bromden and the rest of the patients, along with the staff at the ward, feel emasculated by the head nurse, Nurse Ratched. Nurse Ratched’s authority is challenged upon McMurphy’s arrival, and he quickly becomes an influential figure to the other patients. McMurphy spends his first few days at the ward being very insubordinate, but later shifts to behaving and staying quiet. He then…

In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward staff as a cancer epidemic emerged in sub-Saharan Africa. Through out the first three chapters, Livingston discusses the history, conditions, and stories of Botswana's oncology ward that dramatize the human stakes and intellectual and institutional challenges of an epidemic that will…

psychiatric ward who pretends to be deaf & mute and is the narrator of the story. The psychiatric ward is overseen by Nurse Ratched, who abuses her authority, controls the ward with cruelty and perfection, and has little medical understanding. Chief recalls of Nurse Ratched’s abuse when she sent a patient to receive multiple electroshock treatments for inquiring about what was in their medicine. The wards strict, everyday routine is disrupted once Randle McMurphy, a new patient at the ward,…

a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity”. The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is about a psychiatric ward where the head nurse, Nurse Ratched, hold control over her patients through immoral means. A new patient, Randle McMurphy, doesn’t like the ideals of the ward and fights back. Manipulation is very prevalent theme within One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest seen in most of these characters, manipulating or being manipulated. Nurse…

the Cuckoo's Nest. In the novel, patients are admitted to a psychiatric ward when they stray away from following social norms, not because they are sick. The ward is run by Nurse Ratched, a controlling woman who is ironically all about manipulation instead of rehabilitation. She tears down the patients and convinces them that something is wrong with them instead of helping them overcome their issues. Most patients on the ward can leave voluntarily, but the Nurse Ratched inflicts so much self…

Interactive Academy will be a project based learning charter school in Washington, DC. At capacity it will serve 400 students in Pre-kindergarten-5th grade. In the initial year of operation, Interactive Academy will serve students in grades PK- K. The target population of Interactive Academy is at-risk youth located in underserved communities. Interactive Academy has chosen to start with pre-kindergarten because of the dire need for intervention at the earliest age possible. Because of the…

watch the same programmes. (Ward 45) The focus of those programmes was on royal and imperial events that were aimed at connecting the everyday…

the demonstration of an individual who takes authority in mental ward while battling the real woman in power. Randall McMurphy is admitted into the mental ward after committing crimes and pleading insane. Upon entering the ward McMurphy can already tell how vegetable like those in the ward have become. He’s a man who enjoys gambling and believes he can lighten up the mood around the ward. Nurse Ratched is the head nurse of the ward and soon realizes that McMurphy is trying to mess up the order…