The nurse is having lunch with colleagues from a medical-surgical unit. One of the medical-surgical nurses states, "I don't know how you can work with psych patients! They scare the heck out of me.". How should the nurse respond?
A) "The clients I work with have physical disorders just like the clients you work with.".
B) "I don't know, sometimes I wonder what I am doing.".
C) "It's not that bad, and most of the clients are not that scary.".
D) "I must have better nursing skills than you.".
A
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