Promoting moral imagination in nursing education: Imagining and performing.

Moral imagination is a central component of moral agency and person-centred care. Becoming moral agents who can sustain attention on patients and their families through their illness and suffering involves imagining the other, what moral possibilities are available, what choices to make, and how one wants to be. This relationship between moral agency, moral imagination, and personhood can be effaced by a focus on task-driven technical rationality within the multifaceted challenges of contemporary healthcare.