When planning care for adolescents, the nurse should

D
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A Teenagers are socially and cognitively at the developmental stage where the
health care provider can teach them.
B Teenagers are more interested in immediate health care needs than in long-term
needs.
C Teenagers are at the developmental level that allows them to receive
explanations about health care directly from the nurse.
D Problems that teenagers identify and are interested in are typically the problems
that they are the most willing to address. Confidentiality is important to
adolescents. Adolescents prefer to confer privately (without parents) with the
nurse and health care provider.