While instructing a client on filling in a family history, the nurse says, "Don't include anyone who is not a blood relative in your history. They aren't family." What unintended message is the nurse sending?
1. Only people who are related by blood have an influence on a client's genetics.
2. People who are not related by blood have no influence on the client's health.
3. The client's nonblood relatives are not family.
4. Nonblood relatives are not important.
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Rationale 1: This is the intended message.
Rationale 2: The nurse is specifically giving health history instruction, so this message is not communicated by the statement.
Rationale 3: The client's family likely consists of people who are related by blood (children, siblings, parents, grandparents) and people who are not (spouse, significant other, family-in-law, friends).
Rationale 4: The nurse is not suggesting these people are not important, only that they are not family.
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