A client in the psychiatric hospital is attempting to communicate by stating, "sky, flower, angry, green, opposite, blanket." the nurse recognizes what term as describing this type of communication?

The nurse recognizes the term "word salad" as describing this type of communication

Word salad is a combination of seemingly random words or phrases to form incomprehensible statements that is unclear and difficult to understand. Word salad is usually used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder (such as schizophrenia and dementia) in people. The affected persons do not usually know that they do not make sense when using word salad to communicate.