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What does therapeutic communication accomplish?
 
  a. Facilitates the formation of a positive nurse-patient relationship
  b. Manipulates the patient
  c. Assigns the patient a passive role
  d. Requires the patient to accept what the nurse says

Question 2

The nurse considers the feelings and needs of a patient by stating, I know you are concerned about your surgery tomorrow. How can I help you? What type of communication is this?
 
  a. Intrusive
  b. Aggressive
  c. Closed
  d. Assertive



javimendoza7

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
A positive nurse-patient relationship is facilitated by therapeutic communication.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Assertive communication takes a patient's feelings and needs into account, yet honors the patient's rights as an individual.



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