Many of Jean Watson’s Caritas should have been applied by the medical staff throughout the entirety of the patients battle with cancer. A patient being diagnosed with stage IV cancer can be debilitating however as displayed in the movie, Wit, the treatments can take away so much of the patient’s dignity, sense of self and inflict a great deal of pain and discomfort. From the beginning of the movie, the patient’s well-being was sacrificed by the physicians from the time of diagnoses of the patient’s cancer through treatments. It was only the nurse that showed the patient basic human decency and provided not only physical care but emotional care to the patient when it was needed the most. Two caritas that stand out for the situations that
