The nurse educator is teaching a student nurse how to auscultate the lungs. Which action by the student nurse indicates the need for further education?
A) Listening to sound over the bony structures
B) Asking the patient to sit in an upright position
C) Instructing the patient to breathe slowly through mouth
D) Beginning auscultation from lung apices and moving toward intercostal spaces
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