Common metaphors in nursing ethics.
Metaphors are literary comparisons that are used to create new meaning and insight for concepts, ideas, and situations found in a discipline. This author describes some common moral metaphors used in the discipline of nursing and specifically in situations of nursing ethics. New insights and questions for common usage are offered for the metaphors from a nursing theoretical perspective. Implications for nursing as a discipline are incorporated and discussion points for the future practice of nursing are illuminated.
Milton
Constance L
CL
California Baptist University, Riverside, CA 92504, USA. constancemilton@yahoo.com
D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D019365:Metaphor