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KimWrice · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

The psychiatric-mental health nurse is learning about various tools that can be used to help the nurse establish a therapeutic nurse-patient relationship. The nurse learns that taping offers what advantage to establishing a therapeutic relationship?

1. Assists the nurse in memorizing useful habits and mannerisms.
2. Assists the nurse in identifying communication habits and mannerisms.
3. Offers a way for feedback on communication skills and dynamics to be provided when direct observation is not an option.
4. Offers a way for feedback on communication skills and dynamics to be provided when indirect observation is not an option.

Question 2

While reviewing therapeutic communication techniques, a nursing student reviews statements and actions that are nontherapeutic. Which statement best represents nontherapeutic communication?

1. Why do you think you will never get well?
2. How do you feel about being discharged today?
3. What are your concerns about your living situation?
4. What happened when you quit taking your medications?

mcni194 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: 2
Explanation: Communication habits and mannerism can be identified using the method of taping, offering the nurse greater awareness of both verbal and nonverbal communication skills. The technique of process recording, not taping, offers a way for feedback to be provided on communication skills and dynamics when direct, not indirect, observation is not an option. Taping does not allow communication habits and mannerisms to be memorized.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: 1
Explanation: Therapeutic communication skills are used to foster the nurse-patient relationship in the psychiatric-mental health setting. Asking the patient, Why do you think you will never get well? is an example of requesting an explanation, which is not therapeutic and requires the patient to defend his or her actions. Asking how the patient feels about being discharged, what happened when medication was discontinued, or concerns about the patient's living situation are examples of therapeutic communication.