A nurse wants to demonstrate genuineness with a patient diagnosed with schizophrenia. The nurse should:

A) restate what the patient says.
B) use congruent communication strategies.
C) use self-disclosure in patient interactions.
D) consistently interpret the patient's behaviors.

Genuineness

The quality of being sincere, honest, and straightforward in one's interactions.

Schizophrenia

A long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.