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