Check all of the scenarios below in which nonverbal communication and listening skills are being used. You nod your head in understanding as a patient describes his symptoms.

You write a patient’s vital signs in her chart for the next shift.

A coworker asks whether you have recorded a patient’s vital signs. You shake your head to say “No.”

Through a window, you see a newly discharged patient getting into a car headed for home. You wave good-bye.

You explain the possible side effects of a medication to a patient.