The nurse is assigned to care for a client who has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Which communication behavior will have the most impact on the client?
a. What is said
b. Tone of voice
c. Sense of confidence
d. Verbal message
Question 2When the nurse asks a client, How are you? the client states, I am fine. As the client turns away, she is crying. This is an example of
a. nonverbal communication.
b. incongruence.
c. proxemics.
d. congruence.
Question 3Which of the following is a description of metacommunication?
a. Communication style
b. Nonverbal communication
c. Verbal communication
d. Nonverbal and verbal communication
Question 4A description of denotation is
a. a personalized meaning of a word or phrase.
b. a generalized meaning assigned to a word.
c. a meaning shared by families.
d. a meaning generally shared within a specific culture.
Question 5The nurse puts his arm around an older adult client when assisting her to transfer to a chair. The client could interpret the nurse's touch as
a. a positive gesture only.
b. a threat.
c. denotation.
d. paralanguage.
Question 6When communicating about a client with a health care provider from another culture, the nurse states, The client stopped taking his medications last week when he fell off the wagon. The health care provider looks at the nurse blankly.
This is an example of
a. connotation.
b. information processing.
c. time span between messages.
d. nonverbal cultural variations.
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