Excellent communication skills are essential for nurses to develop because:
1. Nurses must communicate with all disciplines.
2. All nursing activities occur in relationships.
3. Interpersonal skills get the work done.
4. Communication ensures no problems occur.
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Explanation: 1. While nurses do communicate with all disciplines, and excellent communication skills can get
the work done more quickly and effectively, it is the broader option that is correct. Nursing
activities occurring among relationships make communication skills essential for the nurse.
Excellent communication skills do not keep problems from occurring.
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