During an assessment, the patient describes shoulder pain. The nurse responds, "So, you have this shoulder pain when you eat fried foods or ice cream, is that correct?" The nurse is using which interview technique?
1. Facilitation
2. Empathy
3. Interpretation
4. Summary
3
Rationale 1: Facilitation is a technique that would encourage the patient to continue talking.
Rationale 2: Empathy acknowledges the patient's feelings with a statement of understanding to help the patient feel accepted.
Rationale 3: Interpretation links events or implies a cause, which is what the nurse is doing when responding to this patient.
Rationale 4: Summary occurs at the end of the interview, when the nurse summarizes the perception of the patient's health problem from the information gained during the interview.
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