The nurse engaged in a therapeutic relationship with a client uses nonverbal communication to:
1. Enhance verbal messages.
2. Avoid the use of verbal messages.
3. Detract from verbal messages.
4. Terminate the therapeutic relationship.
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Rationale: Nonverbal messages should enhance, not detract from verbal messages. Nonverbal communication is used to clarify or accentuate verbal messages, not to avoid their use. Nonverbal communication is not used to terminate a therapeutic relationship.
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