How is the nursed supported to live dreams of living and growing in caring? How could the nurse transcend the moment to create possibilities within this specific nursing situation? What metaphors might express the meaning of this nursing situation? Students studying this nursing situation are challenged to know the person as caring, as living caring uniquely in the moment, as having hopes and dreams for growing in caring, and as being whole or complete in the moment. The student is also challenged to know the nurse as caring person in the moment and to project ways of supporting the nurse as caring person. Through the study of this situation, students and faculty identify a range of calls for nursing as well as nurturing responses. In this process, there is dialogue focused on knowing the nurse and nursed in the story as caring person. We would contribute the following as our knowing of the nursed as caring person. Through her honest expression of "I'm scared--just look in my eyes," we know her as living hope, honesty, and transcending fear through courage. Calls for nursing might include a call to be known as caring person and a call to have interconnectedness recognized and affirmed. The nurse's response to these calls is individual and evolves from who one is as person and nurse. Therefore, the range of responses is multiple and varied--each reflecting the nurse's informed living of caring in the moment. Each nurturing response is focused on nurturing the person as he or she lives caring and expresses hopes and dreams for growing in caring. If the nurse is responding to the call of the person for recognition and affirmation of interconnectedness, perhaps the nurse would express hearing this call by being present with the intention of knowing other as caring person. This may be communicated through active patience--giving the other time and space to be known; through touch which communicates respect and interconnectedness; through the nurse sharing who he or she is as caring person in this relationship--perhaps through tears as the resonance of commonality of this experience is known; through music or poetry if a shared love of these has been discovered.