Which types of nurses make the best communicators with patients?
A) Those who learn effective psychomotor skills
B) Those who develop critical thinking skills
C) Those who like different kinds of people
D) Those who maintain perceptual biases

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Nurses who develop critical thinking skills make the best communicators. Just liking people does not make an effective communicator because it is important to apply critical thinking standards to ensure sound effective communication. Just learning psychomotor skills does not ensure that the nurse will use those techniques, and communication involves more than psychomotor skills. Critical thinking helps the nurse overcome perceptual biases or human tendencies that interfere with accurately perceiving and interpreting messages from others. Nurses who maintain perceptual biases do not make good communicators.

Which Types of Nurses Make the Best Communicators with Patients