A nurse who works for an oncology unit is preparing to bathe a patient who recently underwent surgery to remove an abdominal tumor. Before beginning the bath, the nurse explains the procedure
Which of the following best describes the nurse's communication role? a. Channel
b. Receiver
c. Message
d. Sender
D
The nurse is the sender in this scenario. The sender is the person who delivers the message. The roles of sender and receiver change back and forth as two persons interact. The message is sent to a receiver, in this case the patient. The message is the content of the conversation; in this scenario explaining what will happen is the message. The channel is the means of conveying and receiving messages through visual, auditory, and tactile senses, the nurse's spoken words in this scenario.
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