You are caring for a patient who has had a cerebrovascular accident, with left hemiparesis and aphasia. The patient responds to your spoken words with garbled responses. The nurse determines that the patient has difficulty with message
A) Encoding
B) Feedback
C) Decoding
D) Channeling
Ans: A
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