The three major sources of resistance to change are:
A. Technical concerns, psychosocial needs, and threats to a person's position.
B. Staffing concerns, physical needs, and threats to hierarchy needs.
C. Prior concerns, social needs, and threats to self-actualization.
D. Technology concerns, personal needs, and threats to hospitalized clients.
ANS: A
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