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