The nurse is preparing the anxious patient for major surgery and remarks, "Everyone feels some anxiety, but you will be asleep during the whole thing." This is an example of which communication style?
1. Empathy
2. Summarizing
3. False reassurance
4. Premature advice
3
False reassurance shows lack of effort to understand and shuts off communication by im-posing personal opinion. It may sound empathetic, but it does not encourage further com-munication.
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