The nurse tells a patient that meeting new people sometimes causes the nurse anxiety. What is the nurse demonstrating by acknowledging feelings to the patient?
1. Empathy
2. Sympathy
3. Genuineness
4. Superficiality
3. Genuineness
Explanation:
The active component of genuineness requires an individual to be honest with another; an example of this is the nurse acknowledging feelings of anxiety to a patient. Sympathy is a feeling of care or concern toward the patient, not an acknowledgment of how one feels. Empathy is the ability to feel the experience of others, not an acknowledgment of feelings. Superficiality indicates concern for one's self only and is not apparent in this scenario.
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