One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Patient Log #1

While we are reading the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, we will be completing three patient log assignments. Your task is to write a paragraph from the perspective of the head nurse Miss Ratched. You are to report on an incident involving the new patient Randall McMurphy.

For the first patient log, skim read pages 78-91. Write a paragraph reporting on either the towel incident involving McMurphy’s lack of a uniform or brushing his teeth with soap powder.

Your paragraph must be a minimum of five complete sentences and include two quotes from the novel. This assignment is worth 15 points (10 points for content, 5 points for spelling and grammar). Please include the following information:

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Patient Log #1

Patient Name: Randall McMurphy

Administrator: Nurse Ratched

Incident Reported: ______

Comments: (one paragraph)

Here is an example:

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Patient Log #1

Patient Name: Randall McMurphy

Administrator: Nurse Ratched

Incident Reported: Nakedness and lewd behaviour

Comments:

The new patient Randall McMurphy who transferred from a work farm just yesterday has been causing a major ruckus to the set routine of this Ward. He appeared in nothing but a towel this morning and began singing loudly in the halls. When I asked why he wasn’t wearing any clothes, he replied, “I’m afraid some thief in the night boosted my clothes” (page 88). When he was then given a set of green pajamas, he took his towel off in front of me and put it over my shoulder. The fact he was wearing shorts underneath is besides the point. He is a dangerous sex offender. I said to him, “if you are done showing off your manly physique and gaudy underpants to everyone, I think you better go back in the dorm and put on your greens” (page 91).