A nursing student's classmate watched the student who performs a head-to-toe assessment of a patient and is now pointing out some errors in the student's assessment technique. The student feels that the classmate has made some unfair judgments
How should the student respond to this classmate?
A) Ask another classmate to come and listen to the conversation
B) Listen carefully and then respond in a clear but respectful manner
C) Have the clinical instructor mediate between the student and the classmate
D) Begin explaining the assumptions and misperceptions that the classmate has made
B
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