Two nursing students discuss career plans after graduation. One student wants to enter psychiatric nursing. The other student asks, "Why would you want to be a psychiatric nurse? All they do is talk. You will lose your skills." Select the best response by the student interested in psychiatric nursing.
A) "Psychiatric nurses practice in safer environments than other specialties and nurse-to-patient ratios are better because of the nature of patients' problems."
B) "Psychiatric nurses use complex communication skills, as well as critical thinking, to solve multidimensional problems. I'm challenged by those situations."
C) "I think I will be good in the mental health field. I do not like clinical rotations in school, so I do not want to continue them after I graduate."
D) "Psychiatric nurses do not have to deal with as much pain and suffering as medical surgical nurses. That appeals to me."
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