Which clinical finding demonstrates to the nurse that the client can use a standard walker?

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Definitions of nursing student-patient therapeutic communication

Ref. no.	Definitions
44	During therapeutic communication process, nursing trainees use interpersonal skills such as listening for connecting with patient, answering patients’ questions correctly and providing patient centered care.
45	During process of conveying information, nursing students build interpersonal relationship with patient through empathy, to solve patients’ problems and meet their psychological and physical needs more comfortably.
46	It includes data transfer process using verbal and nonverbal communication through which the student and patient relate and cooperate with each other comfortably.
47	Skill of therapeutic communication, a main clinical competence, improves through theoretical and clinical education.
48	Therapeutic communication, including listening, is the most important skill in establishing interpersonal relationship with patients in psychiatric wards.
33	During therapeutic communication, a relationship is built between patient and student through empathy.
49	Therapeutic communication is a required and educable skill in establishing the process of interaction in which information is transferred both verbally and non-verbally between nursing student and patient in competent nursing practice.
50	Therapeutic communication techniques, combining verbal and nonverbal communication, is a paramount competence in nursing practice which is improved in nursing trainees through receiving feedback during practice.
29	Therapeutic communication is a tool for providing holistic and patient centered care through respecting boundaries and empathy.
51	When communication between nursing student and patient is to help patients to cope with problems and unchangeable conditions it considers as the therapeutic communication.
52	They are skills or techniques that develop in nursing students through applying educational strategies and receiving lecturer’s feedback and are used to supply psychiatric patients with quality care.
7	Therapeutic communication is a tool for provision of healthcare through empathy and respecting interpersonal boundaries.
32	Nursing students apply therapeutic communication techniques to build a relationship with the patient.
53	They are communication techniques which should develop in nursing students through education and practice in different clinical rotations.
54	Therapeutic communication includes a set of necessary clinical nursing skills which develop in nursing students through clinical practice.
55	The practical skills of therapeutic communication as well as theoretical knowledge of communication are used during nursing student-patient interaction which leads to improving healthcare quality.
56	It is a required competence in building interpersonal relations between nursing student and patient through empathy.
57	Therapeutic communication is a teachable skill required to prepare students to provide competent and professional care to the patient.
58	Communicating with a patient therapeutically is an essential skill in building interpersonal relationship between patient and nursing students.
59	It is the main educable nursing skill which builds a healing relationship between nursing student and patient through empathic dialogue that improves patient outcomes.
60	Therapeutic communication is an important part of nursing care which increases patients’ participation in their care, and accelerates their recovery through patient education.
34	Therapeutic communication is an important and required skill or technique to provide competent and empathic psychological healthcare which can be taught through effective feedback.
61	The fundamental skill of therapeutic communication, which is developed through education, helps students deliver patient education and care.
62	Therapeutic communication is a part of holistic and patient centered care which covers different aspects of physical and psychological needs of patients through conveying information and making an interactive and relaxing relationship with the nursing student.
63	Therapeutic communication, one of the most important forms of communication, is the foundation of professional practice and a required and educable skill for exchanging information between patient and nursing student to help patients overcome stress and adapt to unchangeable conditions.
64	Therapeutic communication skills, which can be developed through education and practice, are the most important part of nursing. This process improves patient satisfaction through listening and conveying information.
65	Nursing students need to acquire necessary skills of therapeutic communication through training and evaluation before engaging with patients.