Cuckoo's Nest and Nursing Ethics

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A 3 page research paper that examines the Academy Award-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, directed by Milos Forman for United Artists) is based on a novel by Ken Kesey (published in 1962) which represents one of the most negative and sinister portrayals of nursing in all of cinema, as Nurse Ratched is definitely the villain of the narrative. This examination of the film and its relationship nursing ethics, first, offers a brief summary of the plot and then discusses the writer's position on the ethical challenges that it portrays. Bibliography lists 3 sources.