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    Type of study Qualitative exploratory descriptive design will be used in order to achieve the study objectives. The study will use face to face in –depth interviews, a qualitative data collection technique will be used to get the information of the midwives perception on fetal heart rate monitoring during labour using Moyo and Pinard’s fetal scope( Boyce C, 2006). Face to face in- depth interview will be used to obtain detail information that allow participant to talk freely and express inner…

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    the members of a ward for the mentally ill. The book tells the tale of a new member on the ward named McMurphy who enters the ward with the motive of getting out of work for his own selfish reasons. He later changes his purpose for being on the ward to making sure that most of the patients can become new men and leave the ward. McMurphy's actions start off as him as a troublemaker but over time he is looked at as a Christ figure. The very first day McMurphy ends up on the ward everyone senses…

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    idea of morality in 1960’s America is constantly questioned. Kesey writes the novel through the perspective of Chief Bromden, a man in the ward who acts deaf and dumb but can still speak and hear. In this institution, Nurse Ratched has power over the patients and makes decisions that Randle Patrick McMurphy frequently disagrees with. McMurphy is a patient in the ward who leads a rebellion against Ratched because he thinks that the other men deserve more freedom and the ability to express…

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    displayed the mood of the ward to be very dynamic because the mood kept changing. The mood is important to the reader’s understanding because it helps the reader feel like they are in the situation of the characters in the story. The movie version of the same book was directed by Milos Forman, who also showed that the mood of the ward was quite dynamic. Although both Kesey and Forman showed the mood of the ward to be dynamic, Forman failed to accurately present the mood of the ward as Kesey…

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    nurse, is not only responsible for managing the ward which requires her to supervise the nursing staff, the orderlies and the dispensing of medication to patients, she also leads daily therapy group sessions for the men in the ward who are able to participate, voluntary or not. Since the movie released, the “Nurse Ratched” figure appears in every mental hospital; the head nurse developing a very tight schedule and having influential power over the whole ward. Because of the caring and helpful…

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    In his 1709 publication The History of the London Clubs, investigative journalist Edward Ward exposes to his readers a scandalous new cultural group that he labels “mollies.” These men, as he describes in the piece “The Mollies’ Club,” comport themselves as women, and commit numerous sodomitical acts with each other. In this revelatory article, Ward frames the mollies as a cultural group that is othered from his audience, one so degenerate that it raises questions of sliding social virtues,…

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    society’s Combine that requires individuals to conform to its norms. While Nurse Ratched may have acted as a villain in the ward, she is nothing more than a factor that Society uses to keep people from breaking out from conformity. After seeing the new patient of the ward, Randle McMurphy, Chief is reminded of an old patient, Maxwell Taber, who used to cause trouble throughout the ward. He was sent for a…

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    addition when supporting the women on breastfeeding ensure the women is rested and that the baby is calm and showing signs of early feeding (NICE, 2006). To achieve this in the busy postnatal ward, midwives should consider making breastfeeding a priority amongst all the other tasks required on the postnatal ward and setting their shift plan around infants feeding times. Midwives should also organise their shift so that during visiting hours they can do the paperwork or other tasks such as vital…

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    than the definition applied in the outside world than on the ward in which power is usually defined as the authority given to someone holding a higher position. Through the lenses of the narrator known as Chief Bromden whom has been considered as deaf and dumb by the people on the ward helps exhibit the control that Nurse Ratched has on the ward in the hospital in Oregon in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Throughout the story, the ward is viewed as a small world of its own regulations, rules,…

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    the fact that he stands at six foot seven. At the Institution, the patients are placed into two groups: the acutes and the chronics. The acutes can be cured, the chronics cannot, and both groups are ruled over by head Nurse Ratched, who runs the ward with rigid, mechanical precision. The acutes partake in daily Group Meetings, where they are encouraged to attack one another where they are most vulnerable, leaving them all forced into submission. Those who do rebel are placed into electroshock…

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