The Nurse Is Planning Approaches to Use to Begin the Establishment

question 6

Multiple Choice

The nurse is planning approaches to use to begin the establishment of the nurse-patient relationship.Which therapeutic communication techniques will be most useful to achieve this goal? Select all that apply.

• A) Attentively listening as the patient describes their obsessive compulsive rituals
• B) Asking the anxious patient if they have a plan for controlling their current anxiety
• C) Encouraging the depressed patient to "come and talk with me whenever you want"
• D) Sitting quietly in the room while the non-communicating patient unpacks their belongings
• E) Responding to the patient's feelings of loss by stating, "I know that must have made you very sad."

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