The following piece, based on the article "Choose Your Words Wisely," by Michelle C.Danda, discusses the power of words in health care. It contains 15 errors. Your task isto find them all! 1) As a front line health care worker, Michelle Danda knows firsthand the powerlanguage has in nursing. 2) Working as a nurse in an acute psychiatric setting. 3) Dandaremembers co-workers referring to clients in derogatory ways. 4) Terms like "addict,""junkie," "user," and "drug user" was written in colleague's charts, she heard similarlanguage when interacting verbally with co-workers. 5) Through these experiences, Danda came to recognize that a caregivers personalbeliefs about addiction were often transferred through biased language in theworkplace; in such a way that it effected both the quality of care patients recieved aswell as the attitude of other staff members. 6) Even though she now has a different role in mental health nursing Dandacontinues to encounter nurses whose language is biased and unprofessional. 7) Sheremains aware that she to can be influenced by such language: so she makes aconscious and concerted effort to regularly reflect upon her perceptions about mentalhealth and addiction in order to not, unintentionally, compromise client respect. 8) Danda hopes to use her role to help transform the derogatory language she hearsas a front line health care worker into communication that is unbiased andempowering. 9) As marginalized individuals are often not able to fully advocate forthemself, she sees herself as crucial to their advocacy. 10) Using appropriate,empathetic, and compassionate language when treating clients are a good place tostart, Danda has the right idea.

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The following piece, based on the article "Choose Your Words Wisely," by Michelle C.Danda, discusses the power of words in health care. It contains 15 errors. Your task isto find them all! 1) As a front line health care worker, Michelle Danda knows firsthand the powerlanguage has in nursing. 2) Working as a nurse in a