title: Fables: ways of knowing and understanding meaning in nursing.
abstract: Fables are literary short stories intended to convey a moral maxim for some aspect of human living. Within the discipline of nursing, a fable is a medium by which stories and themes of humanly lived phenomena may be viewed in light of a particular philosophical lens of understanding. The fable offers possibilities for instruction through illuminating fictitious characters and offering notions for what a member of a discipline ought to do. In this article, the author shall present a fable and offer an interpretation from a human becoming perspective for what one ought to do in the discipline of nursing.
authors.affiliation: California Baptist University, Riverside, California 92504, USA. constancemilton@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Constance L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Milton
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002755:Choice Behavior; D032882:Comprehension; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005086:Existentialism / Q000523:psychology; D006262:Health; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D008016:Life Change Events; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D009014:Morals; D033262:Narration; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011788:Quality of Life; D012660:Semantics; D013561:Symbolism; D013850:Thinking