According to Doctor Koocher and Doctor Keith-Spiegel, the responsibility of a mental health professional is to “take care to do no harm seek to safeguard the welfare and rights of [patients] when conflicts occur attempt to resolve these conflicts in a responsible fashion that avoids or minimizes harm [and be] alert to and guard against personal, social, organizational or political factors that might lead to misuse of influence,” (Koocher & Keith-Spiegel, 2008, p. 551). Webster Dictionary defines cuckoo’s nest as “pejorative terms for an insane asylum” (Cuckoo’s Nest, 2015). In the synonym portion, words like insane asylum, nut house, and even sanatorium show up. Nowhere in that definition states anything like “the act of complying; a yielding;
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Nurse Ratched, the main 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 façade of the mental health care system, there lies a subtle and widespread attempt to enforce compliance and acceptance of unwanted authority. Nurse Ratched imposes the submission and authorization of the patients. From therapy to leading the ward, she appears to have virtually no formal training or experience in family therapy, group therapy or in leading a therapy group. The role Ratched performs as group leader lies outside the boundaries of her competence, education, training, and supervised experience (Fernie, 2015). She uses simple suggestion to turn the men on …show more content…
After she finds Billy Bibbit naked in bed with one of McMurphy’s girlfriends the morning following an all-night party organized by McMurphy and the overlooking of night nurse Mr. Turkle. When the others applaud Billy for overcoming his performance anxiety with his willing companion, Ratched tells him, “Aren’t you ashamed. What worries me is how your mother is going to take this.” Billy pleads with her not to tell his mother and she responds, “Your mother and I are old friends.” After more pleading, she asks him, “Don’t you think you should have thought of that before you took that woman into that room?” (Movie, 2015). Upon saying that, Ratched violates the rule of confidentiality in the mental ward, the Billy panics and then collapses onto the ground. As the ward attendants carry him away, Ratched looks at McMurphy with unbridled hatred. After a loud scream, everyone finds Billy with his throat slashed in Doctor Spivey’s office. When McMurphy learns of Billy Bibbit’s suicide, he lunges at Ratched and attempts to strangle her. The ward attendants drag him away. After this final act of defiance, McMurphy is lobotomized and the Chief, who has developed a close personal friendship with McMurphy, smothers him with a pillow, and perhaps to protect the others from seeing him in such a hopeless
Nurse Ratched, the main 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 façade of the mental health care system, there lies a subtle and widespread attempt to enforce compliance and acceptance of unwanted authority. Nurse Ratched imposes the submission and authorization of the patients. From therapy to leading the ward, she appears to have virtually no formal training or experience in family therapy, group therapy or in leading a therapy group. The role Ratched performs as group leader lies outside the boundaries of her competence, education, training, and supervised experience (Fernie, 2015). She uses simple suggestion to turn the men on …show more content…
After she finds Billy Bibbit naked in bed with one of McMurphy’s girlfriends the morning following an all-night party organized by McMurphy and the overlooking of night nurse Mr. Turkle. When the others applaud Billy for overcoming his performance anxiety with his willing companion, Ratched tells him, “Aren’t you ashamed. What worries me is how your mother is going to take this.” Billy pleads with her not to tell his mother and she responds, “Your mother and I are old friends.” After more pleading, she asks him, “Don’t you think you should have thought of that before you took that woman into that room?” (Movie, 2015). Upon saying that, Ratched violates the rule of confidentiality in the mental ward, the Billy panics and then collapses onto the ground. As the ward attendants carry him away, Ratched looks at McMurphy with unbridled hatred. After a loud scream, everyone finds Billy with his throat slashed in Doctor Spivey’s office. When McMurphy learns of Billy Bibbit’s suicide, he lunges at Ratched and attempts to strangle her. The ward attendants drag him away. After this final act of defiance, McMurphy is lobotomized and the Chief, who has developed a close personal friendship with McMurphy, smothers him with a pillow, and perhaps to protect the others from seeing him in such a hopeless