TY - JOUR AU - Carroll, Susan V. AB - E DITORIAL Vol. 40 No. 1 February 2008 3 V. Susan Carroll, MS RN CNE The hero of the Pixar film Ratatouille is a skinny, followers, he revolutionizes the nearly moribund little, blue-gray rat named Remy. One of an enor- kitchen of Gusteau’s restaurant. He renews the mous family of typical chubby, brown rats, Remy is staff’s passion for excellent food, and he changes expected to live and eat like a rat—slinking around the culture of the work group. This culture shift is under cover of darkness, wallowing in trash, and even more apparent when the other rats join the feasting on garbage. But Remy has a passion for kitchen staff. Remy thinks critically and solves gourmet food and cooking, pursuits that support problems, and in doing so, he shows us how we his life’s ambition to do more and to be more. Remy can use critical-thinking skills such as creativity, is endowed with keen senses, is educated, and is risk-taking, curiosity, and deductive reasoning in obsessed with creating his art—food. The film has domains other than those in which they were origi- two underlying themes: (1) the pursuit of excellence nally learned. He is an effective, albeit unusual, TI - In Pursuit of Excellence JF - Journal of Neuroscience Nursing DA - 2008-02-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/in-pursuit-of-excellence-rpkYjz6Vg9 SP - 3–4-3&ndash EP - ndash;4-3–4 VL - 40 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -