title: A focus on human flourishing.
abstract: In this column the author focuses on the concepts of human vulnerability and human flourishing. A parable is presented highlighting the importance of now, the present, in human flourishing. A bioethical, anthropological perspective and a nursing humanbecoming perspective on human flourishing are offered. Nursing education is challenged to emphasize the nursing theories of the discipline to teach the concept of human flourishing. Parse's concept of true presence, the four postulates of humanbecoming, and the humanbecoming community change concepts illuminate a nursing theoretical understanding of human flourishing.
authors.affiliation: South Dakota State University, Sioux Falls, SD 57105, USA. tsbunkers@sio.midco.net
authors.forename: Sandra Schmidt
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Bunkers
mesh_terms: D000883:Anthropology; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans