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communications.

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What is defined as the exchange of information by sending and receiving messages, which results in understanding between the sender and the receiver?   communication  
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What are the five elements of communication?   sender, message, channel of transmission, receiver, and response.  
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What is defined as a specialized or technical language of a trade, a profession, or a group of people?   jargon  
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What is the defined as a nonstandard vocabulary used and understood by a small group of people?   slang  
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What are words called that sound alike yet may have a different meaning to the receiver than was intended by the sender?   homonyms  
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What is defined as an intentional effort to hear a message and understand its meaning?   active listening  
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What is defined as weakness or paralysis of muscle of the lips, tongue, and throat due to brain damage from a stroke or accident?   dysarthria  
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What is a language disorder, due to brain damage, in which the client has difficulty saying what he/she is thinking and wants to say?   expressive aphasia  
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What is a language disorder, due to brain damage, in which the client cannot understand what is being said to him/her either through written or spoken word and gestures?   receptive aphasia  
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What is defined as a passive awareness of sound?   hearing  
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How should you answer the phone at work?   identify the department, identify yourself by first and last name, state your title.  
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Listening, speaking, writing, collaboration, problem solving, and decision-making are essential to what?   effective communication  
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As a new employee you may be assigned to learn from a wise and trusted counselor, teacher, tutor, coach or advisor. What is this person called?   mentor  
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Active listening focuses on what ability?   concentration  
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What is defined as an appraisal of the whole person to establish a baseline and determine the client's potential and his need for help?   assessment  
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What is the desired end results, or what one hopes to accomplish, either short or long term, called?   goals  
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What is defined as practice of noting and recording facts and events by the health care worker utilizing his or her senses?   observation  
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How should you sign your name on the medical record?   The first initial, last name and title  
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What is the correct way to write the international time for 12 midnight?   2400  
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What is the correct way to write the international time for 12:30 AM?   0030  
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What is the correct way to write the international time for 7:00 PM   1900  
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Legal documentation of observations, directions given for care, and recordings of actual care given to the patient are contained in the patient's:   medical record  
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What is the name of the part of a computer that is used to type information onto the display screen?   keyboard  
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What are the lists of information or files that can be opened, created, or edited on a computer disk referred to as?   menus  
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What are the pictures on the display screen that represent different functions referred to as?   icons  
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What is a card file with a summary of information found in the client's chart called?   kardex  
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Messages sent without the use of language or words at all?   nonverbal communication  
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Messages sent using spoken words is called?   verbal communication  
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A frown on a clients face is what type of communication?   nonverbal  
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When answering the phone at a place of business, you should answer the phone by which ring?   second  
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What information should you note when taking a telephone message?   name of caller, phone number, date, time, and message  
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When screening phone calls for your boss, what would be a good question to ask for after to know who is calling?   May I ask what this is regarding?  
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Changing the subject, frequent interruptions, or seeming to be too busy affects communication by:   creating barriers  
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What term denotes the pitch of the voice?   inflection  
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The ability to identify with and understand another person's feelings, situation and motives is called:   empathy  
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Having the ability to say or do the kindest or most fitting thing in a difficult situation is:   tact  
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What communication career tests for speech, language and voice disorders and provides a treatment program to restore or develop the patient's speech communication skills?   speech therapist  
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Receiving information necessary to give informed consent prior to the start of any procedure or treatment is guaranteed under what policy?   patient's rights  
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The sender of information must deliver a message in a clear and concise manner for good communication. Name two skills that are essential for this to take place:   pronunciation and grammar  
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Name 3 types of disabled individuals who might experience    
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