When the nurse communicates with a newly admitted client, the nurse must pay particular attention to nonverbal behaviors. The nurse considers which characteristic as nonverbal communication?
A) the client's accent
B) the client's tone of voice
C) the client's religious practices
D) the client's ethnicity
Ans: B
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A person communicates by gestures, facial expressions, posture, space, appearance, body movement, touch, voice tone and volume, and rate of speech.
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