PRIMARY CARE THE ART AND SCIENCE
EXAM SCRIPT WITH VIEW AHEAD TESTED
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
2026.
⫸ §Caring and Nursing. Answer: §Caring expressed in nursing—
including advanced practice nursing—is the intentional and authentic
presence of the nurse with another who is recognized as a person who
is living caring and growing in caring
⫸ §Caring and Human Service Disciplines. Answer: §All human
service disciplines are based on caring
§Nursing, however, is unique in that caring is what most directly
characterizes nursing's knowledge base and service
⫸ §Medicine. Answer: In medicine the fundamental commitment to
caring is directly characterized in the Dx and Rx of human structural
and functional problems, usually characterized in physical terms
⫸ APRN Practice. Answer: §Draws on and transforms characteristic
medical ways of practice for nursing purposes
§Specialized opportunities for creating situations of care that call
forth specialized patterns of caring
§
, ⫸ Caring Is the MATRIX. Answer: §The "stuff" within which the
APRN-patient relationship is brought to life
§Knowing another as a caring person requires a commitment to
entering into the world of the nursed with the explicit intention of
knowing that person individually and uniquely
⫸ §Generalized Patterns of Caring. Answer: §As delineated in the
Circle of Caring Model
•Courage
•Authentic presence
•Advocacy
•Knowing
•Commitment
•Patience
⫸ §Courage. Answer: §Courage is a human act (Paul Tillich, 1952)
§Daily application of values
§Offers an ethical grounding for your practice
§Courage manifests itself in making one's nursing vocation a
commitment to these values and beliefs that undergird caring
⫸ §Authentic Presence. Answer: §Intentionally being with another in
the fullness of one's personhood
§The caring communicated through authentic presence is the
initiating and sustaining medium of nursing within the nursing
situation
EXAM SCRIPT WITH VIEW AHEAD TESTED
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
2026.
⫸ §Caring and Nursing. Answer: §Caring expressed in nursing—
including advanced practice nursing—is the intentional and authentic
presence of the nurse with another who is recognized as a person who
is living caring and growing in caring
⫸ §Caring and Human Service Disciplines. Answer: §All human
service disciplines are based on caring
§Nursing, however, is unique in that caring is what most directly
characterizes nursing's knowledge base and service
⫸ §Medicine. Answer: In medicine the fundamental commitment to
caring is directly characterized in the Dx and Rx of human structural
and functional problems, usually characterized in physical terms
⫸ APRN Practice. Answer: §Draws on and transforms characteristic
medical ways of practice for nursing purposes
§Specialized opportunities for creating situations of care that call
forth specialized patterns of caring
§
, ⫸ Caring Is the MATRIX. Answer: §The "stuff" within which the
APRN-patient relationship is brought to life
§Knowing another as a caring person requires a commitment to
entering into the world of the nursed with the explicit intention of
knowing that person individually and uniquely
⫸ §Generalized Patterns of Caring. Answer: §As delineated in the
Circle of Caring Model
•Courage
•Authentic presence
•Advocacy
•Knowing
•Commitment
•Patience
⫸ §Courage. Answer: §Courage is a human act (Paul Tillich, 1952)
§Daily application of values
§Offers an ethical grounding for your practice
§Courage manifests itself in making one's nursing vocation a
commitment to these values and beliefs that undergird caring
⫸ §Authentic Presence. Answer: §Intentionally being with another in
the fullness of one's personhood
§The caring communicated through authentic presence is the
initiating and sustaining medium of nursing within the nursing
situation
