A patient tells the nurse that he thinks he has cancer because every other male family member was diagnosed with cancer at the same age. The nurse responds, "Everything will be all right
" Which nontherapeutic communication technique has the nurse used? 1. Rejecting
2. Giving advice
3. Giving disapproval
4. Giving reassurance
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Rationale 1: Rejecting is refusing to consider or showing contempt for the patient's ideas.
Rationale 2: The nurse has not offered the patient any advice.
Rationale 3: The nurse has not indicated disapproval of the patient's idea.
Rationale 4: Giving reassurance is a nontherapeutic technique that suggests there is no cause for anxiety and devalues the patient's feelings. It would be more therapeutic for the nurse to ask the patient to "discuss that a bit further."
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