To show excellent communication skills, which is an important consideration?
1. Crafting messages without qualifiers
2. Sending intimate messages
3. Requiring title use
4. Succeeding through persistence
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Explanation: 1. Qualifiers reveal a concern for the consequences of sending the communication message. These
also reveal lack of confidence. Intimate messages are not always appropriate and the receiver,
goal, and message must be considered first. Requiring the use of titles, such as Nurse Jones or
Ms. Smith can be appropriate for respect is some situations but is not necessarily excellent
communication. Persistence is not necessarily an aspect of excellent communication.
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