This was an exhausting visit to J's home, yet it was even more energizing because of the multiple caring moments I experienced with J. and her family. I have come to believe that caring moments are unique to each nursing situation and evolve naturally from the mutuality of authentic presence as the fullness of the nurse's personhood blends with the fullness of the other's personhood. Together they transcend the moment. The caring moment is connectedness between nurse and other and both experience moments of joy. (Kronk, 1992) To characterize this nursing situation with a nursing diagnosis and to portray it as a linear process driven by the diagnosis or problem to be addressed with a pre-envisioned outcome would be to rob the situation of all the beauty of nursing. Because a story of a nursing situation is narrative, there is a temporal structure. However, this structure supports rather than destroys the "lived experience" character of the situation. The story of the nursing situation conveys the "all-at-once" as well as the unfolding. This approach permits us to conceptualize as well as contextualize the knowledge of nursing the story tells. Through story, the meaning for this nurse of knowing herself as caring person, as entering into the world of other(s) with authentic presence, is understood. The nurse knows other as caring person, and in that knowing attends to specific calls for caring with unique expressions of caring responses created in the moment. The Nursing as Caring theory, grounded in the assumption that all persons are caring, has as its focus a general call to nurture persons as they live caring uniquely and grow as caring persons. The challenge then for nursing is not to discover what is missing, weakened, or needed in another, but to come to know the other as caring person and to nurture that person in situation-specific, creative ways. We no longer understand nursing as a "process," in the sense of a complex sequence of predictable acts resulting in some predetermined desirable end product. Nursing is, we believe, processual, in the sense that it is always unfolding and that it is guided by intention.