When practicing therapeutic communication with a client, the nurse demonstrates which of the following listening skills?
a. Finishing the client's sentences to indicate listening
b. Not clarifying messages to avoid interrupting
c. Avoiding taking notes to detract from listening
d. Changing the environment to decrease distractions
D
Effective listening improves the ability to meet client needs. Changing the environment to decrease distractions is a practice important to listening skills. Finishing client sentences, not clarifying messages, and avoiding taking notes are barriers to listening and may prevent the nurse from picking up hidden messages, which could minimizing minimize misunderstandings if perceived.
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