title: Nursing on the caring edge: metaphorical vignettes.
abstract: This article attempts to convey some enduring truths about nursing on the caring edge of evolutionary human consciousness. A format of selected literary and poetic metaphoretical vignettes is used to depict the tacit, expressive elements of caring in nursing that give it an evolutionary edge in the health care system and in society.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D009732:Nursing Care; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing