Santos, Ashley Kate L.

BSN IV-A

NCM 107 July 25, 2013

Awakenings.. Appreciating the Noble Profession of Nursing Nurses in the institution like Nurse Eleanor and Nurse Anthony show their determination in doing their duties and responsibilities to their patients. They are extraordinary, especially Nurse Eleanor who always there to support Dr. Sayer for the goodness of their patients. She showed willingness and love for her work for the promotion of health of every patient in the institution. They have the good communication skills where they listen to patients feelings and they make sure that patient would understand them. Nurses have empathy for the pain and suffering of patients. They are able to feel compassion and provide comfort. Nurses strive to engage therapeutically with those in their care. Consider the challenge of engaging with an unresponsive, catatonic person and with a person who is suspicious and aggressive. As member of the health care team, nurses collaborate with other health care providers in order to cure existing problems and prevent further complications. Based from the movie, nurses are also rendering care by providing comfort measures, executing health care techniques and administration of medications. Awakenings is a great movie. It really inspires me. The message of the movie is that we should love and be dedicated to our work. We should not give up and we should always find a way to make it happen. Nurses are compassionate in doing their duties and responsibilities. It taught us to work hard and stay possible and good things will happen. We should support our patients and provide them holistic care that will make them completely healthy, either it is physically, mentally, emotionally, socially and spiritually. I remember the line, Human spirit is more powerful than any drug and that is what needs to be nourished quoted from Dr. Sayer that touched my heart. Awakenings is commendable and should be highly advocated for everyone, not just psychologist, biologist and the like. Likewise, bring both holistically systematic and compelling it would pave the way for allowing the audience to recognize the worth of the issues discussed in the film as well as enjoy it.

Radiation Therapy Radiation therapy (in North America), or radiotherapy (in the UK and Australia) also called radiation oncology, and sometimes abbreviated to XRT, is the medical use of ionizing radiation as part of cancer treatment to control malignant cells (not to be confused with radiology, the use of radiation in medical imaging and diagnosis). Radiotherapy may be used for curative or adjuvant cancer treatment. It is used as palliative treatment (where cure is not possible and the aim is for local disease control or symptomatic relief) or as therapeutic treatment (where the therapy has survival benefit and it can be curative). Total body irradiation (TBI) is a radiotherapy technique used to prepare the body to receive a bone marrow transplant. Radiotherapy has several applications in non-malignant conditions, such as the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, severe thyroid eye disease, pterygium, pigmented villonodular synovitis, prevention of keloid scar growth, and prevention of heterotopic ossification. The use of radiotherapy in non-malignant conditions is limited partly by worries about the risk of radiationinduced cancers. Radiotherapy is used for the treatment of malignant tumors (cancer), and may be used as the primary therapy. It is also common to combine radiotherapy with surgery,chemotherapy, hormone therapy or some mixture of the three. Most common cancer types can be treated with radiotherapy in some way. The precise treatment intent (curative, adjuvant, neoadjuvant, therapeutic, or palliative) will depend on the tumour type, location, and stage, as well as the general health of the patient. Radiation therapy is commonly applied to the cancerous tumour. The radiation fields may also include the draining lymph nodes if they are clinically or radiologically involved with tumour, or if there is thought to be a risk of subclinical malignant spread. It is necessary to include a margin of normal tissue around the tumour to allow for uncertainties in daily set-up and internal tumor motion. These uncertainties can be caused by internal movement (for example, respiration and bladder filling) and movement of external skin marks relative to the tumour position. To spare normal tissues (such as skin or organs which radiation must pass through in order to treat the tumour), shaped radiation beams are aimed from several angles of exposure to intersect at the tumour, providing a much larger absorbed dose there than in the surrounding, healthy tissue.

Radiation therapy has been in use as a cancer treatment for more than 100 years, with its earliest roots traced from the discovery of x-rays in 1895 by Wilhelm Rntgen. The field of radiation therapy began to grow in the early 1900s largely due to the groundbreaking work of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, who discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium. This began a new era in medical treatment and research. Radium was used in various forms until the mid-1900s when cobalt and caesium units came into use. Medical linear accelerators have been used to as sources of radiation since the late 1940s. With Godfrey Hounsfields invention of computed tomography (CT) in 1971, three-dimensional planning became a possibility and created a shift from 2-D to 3-D radiation delivery; CT-based planning allows physicians to more accurately determine the dose distribution using axial tomographic images of the patient's anatomy. Orthovoltage and cobalt units have largely been replaced by megavoltage linear accelerators, useful for their penetrating energies and lack of physical radiation source. The advent of new imaging technologies, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the 1970s and positron emission tomography (PET) in the 1980s, has moved radiation therapy from 3-D conformal to intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT). These advances have resulted in better treatment outcomes and fewer side effects.