Miss Vivian Bearing In The Movie Wit

The movie Wit is a very inspiring and mind blowing movie. It was about an English Professor, Miss Vivian Bearing who is very well educated and well known to its intense knowledge about the metaphysical poetry of John Donne who was then diagnosed with stage four metastatic ovarian cancer. Miss Vivian Bearing is a strong intellectual woman who portrayed a very resilient character in the movie. She demonstrated a straight face with no tears and said, “Okay, go on” (Wit, 2001) as Dr. Harvey Kelekian mentioned to her about the diagnosis and the treatments involved. Also, when Dr. Kelekain mentioned about letting her family informed, she said “It is unnecessary” (Wit, 2001). She signed the consent for the chemotherapy at the same time she will

I would personally use and I believe that transpersonal caring relationship was manifested throughout the movie. It is defined as human-to-human connectedness that is occurring in a nurse-patient encounter that each is touched by one another (George, 2010). Nurse Susie is the primary nurse of Vivian Bearing since admission. Since then, they both have built a unique relationship that was not common to other individuals. She demonstrated a caring-trusting relationship in which Vivian can talk to her in a casual manner and can express herself in a way that nobody will judge and would understand what she is been going through. For instance, they would talk over a deep conversation with popsicles as Nurse Susie comfortably raised her feet up. As evidence in one of the scene where Vivian realizes that she is not doing so well and showing her vulnerability and said, “I am scared…Now I am not sure of myself anymore. I am going to die” (Wit, 2001) and then Nurse Susie stood by her, holding her hands and offering relief to relax and be calm and responded in empathy that says “I understand… it’s okay… it’s alright” (Wit, 2001) and offered popsicles to have some relief. According to George (2010) caring- healing potentiates harmony, wholeness, and comfort and promote inner healing by releasing some of the disharmony and negative energy that may interfere with the healing process. Through this Nurse Susie provided comfort and healing just by listening to all the fears and pains that Miss Bearing has been dealing with. They both have established that nurse-patient relationship where both comfortable with each other. Thus, Miss Bearing felt relieved after that as she continue to fight for her life every day. Those small acts of kindness makes a big difference in the patients’