An Unforgettable Night
After reading Joyce Carol Oates story, “ The Night Nurse,” revenge is what is found. This story starts off by a woman by the name of Grace Burkhardt, collapsing at a shopping mall because of a reason that was unknown at the time. She is taken in an ambulance to a hospital where she undergoes an emergency surgery for a blood clot that is in her leg that could have traveled to her heart. Grace’s stay in the hospital that night was not how she expected. The worst pain a person can indure, is the one who is left out. In the beginning of the story Grace explains herself as being laid back. “I am behaving well, look how calm and civilized” (654). Grace never screamed out at the shopping mall. She tried to act as calm as possible. Even though Grace was in so much pain, she never sobbed to God or never did she ask, “Am I dying? Will I die” (654)? Shortly after the doctors took care of Grace, she went into surgery. After this is when her attitude begins to change.
After surgery Grace just lied in bed in so much pain. She cried out “help me…. I’m so cold, I’m so frightened” (654)! This is when the reader notices the shift in Graces attitude. Her attitude shifts into a tone that can practically be heard by the reader. As many times as Grace cried out for help the reader could tell she was desperate.
Once the day was over, Grace was about to go through a night that she would never forget. She began to beg God, unlike in the beginning of the story, “Help me through the night” (655). The pain from Grace’s surgery was so severe, that she called
for a nurse repeatedly. Finally a nurse came in to give her a bedpan so she could urinate. After Grace used the bedpan she waited for the nurse to come back and retrieve it, but she never came back. She needed a nurse also to bring her a blanket because she was freezing cold. Once again there was no nurse to be found.
As Grace laid there waiting, she began to drift into her years at college. She thought about her several administrative positions she held during her years at Wells College. During these years people had always praised her. Grace always seemed to be favored by others.
Grace is a very sweet and sensitive girl. She made some mistakes herself, but because of her foster parents she got through the tough parts. In Far From the Tree written by Robin Benway, she created a character that had a child in highschool and Her little girl was adopted and has a better life than what Grace could have offered her. Once Grace got told she had a sister named Maya she bursted into joy. Her heart was beating out of her chest when she was emailing Maya to meet up. When Maya replied with an answer Grace was ecstatic, but at the same time she did not know what to think. The moment when she saw the answer was ¨yes¨ she ran downstairs to tell her parents. Her whole life was now different because she had a relief that she had someone
Florence is in her headquarters at the hospital, she works at. She is writing a letter to a patient's mother. When all of a sudden, Mary, a fellow nurse, walks in. Mary and Florence talk about how nice it is to work with each other and how happy Mary is here. Mary quotes, “ I’m glad I’m here with you Miss Nightengale. Good Night.” at the end of their discussion.Also, they talk about how both of their families don’t really want them there. They talk for a little and Florence seems very at home and happy. Later, after Mary had left, two gentlemen come to talk to Florence. It is Dr. Goodale and Dr. Hall that have come to speak with her. After talking for a while they both leave and let Florence to her work. In the hospital, Florence seemed like an entire new person, she was much more
The second grace that she wished to be gifted by God was “bodily sickness in youth at thirty years of age”. She wanted to be bestowed a sickness so serious that she would believe herself to be dying. This sickness would allow her to “be purged by the mercy of God, and after live more to the worship of God”. She hoped that by being so close to death she would be tested by evil, but would ultimately retain streng...
She continually moans “Mama, Mama, Mama.” He describes this experience as one of the most terrible things that he’s ever seen. The whole time he yearns to hold her hand and just tell her that it will be okay. However, none of the doctors seem to notice her pain and he himself struggles to make a move until later when he holds her hand and says, “It’s OK, dear, it’s alright”. This experience reminded me of the many complaints that patients sometimes make that some doctors treat patients more as problems or tasks than as real people who need to be cared for not only scientifically but also with humanity. The narrator wonders whether this is treatment of patients is not necessarily intentional but just a result of the sleeplessness, stress, and excessive responsibility on doctors. I agree with the narrator because, its not that doctors don’t are immune to humanity and don’t care about their patients, they are under a lot of pressure and stress which can impede them and cause them to forget that their patients need to be treated with comfort and care. I liked how later when the narrator asked a psychiatrist she said that he would have to “get used to it” but doesn’t have to “become like them”. In essence she reminds him that just because one person acts a specific way he doesn’t have
While off her morphine, she has fits, suffers much anguish and torment, but she endures through it, and determined to beat the odds, and take herself off the drugs
Coming into this topic, I didn’t know much about the scandalous nurse. I scarcely knew about her history and background. I had heard that Allitt was mentally sick and had suffered some obstacles during her childhood. I also knew that her main way of killing was through over doses of insulin, and that she worked at a ward for infants. The speculations that Allitt suffered from an odd mental illness always intrigued me.
Define Nursing Nursing is a knowledge-based profession within the health care sector that focuses on the overall care of individuals. According to The American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP), “defines nurse practitioners as registered nurses who have received graduate-level nursing education and clinical training, which enables them to provide a wide range of preventative and acute health care services to individuals of all ages. They deliver high-quality, cost effective care, often performing physical examinations, ordering tests, making diagnoses, and prescribing and managing medication and therapies”. Nurse Practitioners are able to specialize in a particular area, such as family and adult practice, pediatrics, and women’s health; and refer patients to other specialists when necessary. Some nurse practitioners work under the supervision of a physician while others run their own practices.
Just like the high, middle, and low class of modern society, a similar version parallels this theory throughout the book. Nurse Ratched ranks as the most powerful followed by the black boys and Doctor Spivey who are under her complete control. Next, comes the low class patients. Acutes seem functional and unbelonging while chronics seem disabled and outcasted. The nurse holds a strong ground over both doctors and patients, “Those are the rules we play by. Of course, she always wins my friend, always. She’s impregnable herself and with the element of time working for her she eventually gets inside everyone. Thats why the hospital regards her as its top nurse and grants her so much authority; she’s a master of forcing the trembling libido out into the open.” (Kesey, 73) The black boys are “...in contact on a high-voltage wave length of hate, and the black boys are out there performing her bidding before she even thinks it.” (Kesey, 31) The lower end of the social ladder is illustrated as “Machines with flaws inside that can’t be repaired , flaws born in, or flaws beat over…”(Kesey 16) The victims that fall short of the Big Nurse are stripped of sanity, self esteem and taught they are flawed and dangerous. The characters seem so powerless against the cunning Miss.
Now that the summary is out there for all who did not get to read the story let’s make some connections to everyday life. In the story is it said by the author that, “All the while I hated myself for having wept before the needle went in, convinced that the nurse and my mother we...
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When Aleyn crept into Malyne’s bed, the narrator articulates that “it was too late to cry out, and shortly
This essay is based around two ghost stories, The old nurse's story and the night nurse's story, I am to analyse these stories and talk about the similarities in them, along with what is different about the two. This essay is based around two ghost stories, "The old nurse's story" and "the night nurse's story", I am to analyse these stories and talk about the similarities in them, along with what is different about the two, first I will look at similarities, including not only character similarities but structure and writing styles too. The Old Nurse's story was written by Elizabeth Gaskell and the Night Nurse's story was written by Edith Oliver, these stories were written many years apart, which means that their writing and structure are likely to be different since these attributes change over time. Although this is true, it is all too easy to consider "the night nurse's story" just an adaptation, or another way of telling "the old nurse's story", I don't think this is necessarily true, since there are too many differences between them to be considered the same.
Florence Nightingale played a large role in establishing modern day nursing. She wanted to help the sick and the elderly as a child and grew up to become a very successful nurse. Nightingale cemented nursing as a respectable profession and went on to train in nursing against her family’s wishes. She contributed politically in the Crimean war tending to wounded soldiers along with dozens of other trained nurses. Florence Nightingale made significant contributions to the nursing profession, most notable are her effects on modern day nursing and political effects on society. The contributions she made were very rebellious for the time, because nursing was considered a poor job and she was from a very wealthy family. Before her, people did not train to become a nurse it was based on trial and error. This was a very flawed plan because people would die from curable illnesses.
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