The social skills involved in a nurse's ability to observe the environment around her and use it to enhance communication and collaboration are important in the following situations
A. A patient's condition is deteriorating and his wife is panicking.
B. A colleague dismisses her concern about following the protocol for a needle-stick injury.
C. She has to work with a colleague that she doesn't like.
D. All of the above
ANS: D
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