Citations:Nurse Ratched

Noun

 * 1977 Cinema Canada, Issues 34-47, p21
 * Martha Gibson's nurse is straight out of the cuckoo's nest, a Nurse Ratched type so dedicated to her job she even ferrets through Liza's garbage.
 * 1989 Paul G. Quinnett, On becoming a health and human services manager: a practical guide for clinicians and counselors, p182
 * But don't become one of the Pod People (bloodless bureaucrats) or a Nurse Ratched or get sick and quit the human service field.
 * 1995 Anne Lamott, Bird by bird: some instructions on writing and life, Anchor Books, p7
 * There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed.
 * 2003 John P. Schuster, Answering Your Call: A Guide for Living Your Deepest Purpose, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, p61
 * You may not run into a Nurse Ratched very often in your life.
 * 2005 Barbara Cherry & Susan R. Jacob, Contemporary nursing: issues, trends, & management, Elsevier Health Sciences, p35
 * Patients hope for a Nightingale who will overcome all obstacles to reduce their mortality from 42% to 2%, but they fear a Sairy Gamp or a Nurse Ratched who will neglect or control them in harmful ways.
 * 2008 Cisco Fernandes, The Simplicity of Life, p40
 * Of course there was a 'Nurse Ratched' who never said more than two words to you, and always seemed to be crabby.
 * 2008 Amy Silverstein, Sick Girl, Grove Press, p134
 * There were only two things on Nurse Vera's mind — getting me out of bed, and keeping me out as long as possible — and she went about making these happen with an insistence that, I thought at the time, bordered on a Nurse Ratched brand of sadism.
 * 2009 Jess Lourey, September Fair: A Murder-By-Month Mystery, Llewellyn Worldwide, p44
 * From a distance, one might describe her as attractive in a motherly way, but up close, she had a Nurse Ratched vibe.