When McMurphy gets to know the mental hospital, she has to work harder to try to make the more difficult patients obey her. He puts up with McMurphy's tricks incessantly and observes that with his command he cannot control the patients. Without the strength left to sustain his needs, he soon recognizes that he should put McMurphy down. He completes this by using his beastly power of having the ability to use stunning drugs and eventually uses a frontal lobotomy to get rid of McMurphy. The only thing he doesn't understand is that McMurphy actually left his flaw in the ward and that his activities live on in every patient in the hospital. Patients have become more like humans and less like rabbits under the wolf, Nurse Ratchet. He embarrassed patients by attacking their emotions, values and past acts. Her terrible behavior is where she drives the psychotic Billy Bibbit to kill himself by playing on his apprehension for his mother, simply because she is worried about losing her grip on the patients. Nurse Ratched set a poor example of nursing roles and values in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The roles of the nurse are that of caregiver, decision maker, and communicator. However, Nurse Ratched has not shown good examples of communication or as a caregiver.
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