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karlynnae

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A nurse is caring for a patient who has just been diagnosed with a brain tumor. The patient asks the nurse if she should choose to have surgery. The nurse's most therapeutic response is:
 
  1. Tell me what you know about the surgery.
  2. I would never decide against having surgery.
  3. If I were you, I would definitely have the surgery.
  4. Don't worry. You will be fine if you don't have surgery.

Question 2

When a nurse educates a patient about his medications, the patient tells the nurse that he should go back to nursing school because he does not know very much about medications. The style of communication that the patient is demonstrating is
 
  1. Passive.
  2. Avoidant.
  3. Assertive.
  4. Aggressive.



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karlynnae

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Reply 2 on: Jul 22, 2018
Wow, this really help


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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