When interacting with an elderly patient, the nurse would enhance communication by:
A) speaking slowly in order to allow the patient to process the message.
B) addressing him by his first name to encourage a therapeutic relationship.
C) standing in the doorway rather than entering the room to give the elderly patient more privacy.
D) speaking in simple sentences, as if to a child.
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