When working with a client who frequently exhibits aggressive, threatening behaviors, which communication technique should the nurse plan to use to provide external boundaries?
1. Confronting
2. Setting limits
3. Waiting in silence
4. Encouraging comparisons
ANS: 2
When a nurse sets limits, he or she provides the client with external boundaries to expressed thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. Limit setting is useful for clients exhibiting aggressive behaviors so that they may understand the parameters of acceptable behavior. The other three options do would be less therapeutic with an aggressive client. 1. Confronting challenges an inaction or dis-crepancy. 3. Waiting in silence is used to draw out a client. 4. Encouraging comparisons asks for the client to identify similarities and differences among thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and various life situations.
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