The psychiatric-mental health nurse is learning about various tools that can be used to help the nurse establish a therapeutic nurse-patient relationship. The nurse learns that taping offers what advantage to establishing a therapeutic relationship?
1. Assists the nurse in memorizing useful habits and mannerisms.
2. Assists the nurse in identifying communication habits and mannerisms.
3. Offers a way for feedback on communication skills and dynamics to be provided when direct observation is not an option.
4. Offers a way for feedback on communication skills and dynamics to be provided when indirect observation is not an option.
Answer: 2
Explanation: Communication habits and mannerism can be identified using the method of taping, offering the nurse greater awareness of both verbal and nonverbal communication skills. The technique of process recording, not taping, offers a way for feedback to be provided on communication skills and dynamics when direct, not indirect, observation is not an option. Taping does not allow communication habits and mannerisms to be memorized.
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