The nurse puts his arm around an older adult client when assisting her to transfer to a chair. The client could interpret the nurse's touch as
a. a positive gesture only.
b. a threat.
c. denotation.
d. paralanguage.
ANS: A
Touching a client is one of the most powerful ways a nurse has to communicate nonverbally. Within a professional relationship, affective touch can convey caring and reassurance. In studies, nurses' touching clients has been reported to be perceived both positively as an expression of caring and negatively as a threat. Denotation refers to the generalized meaning of a word. Paralanguage is the way a verbal message is expressed.
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