While walking in the hallway of an acute care unit of the hospital, the nurse...

make the charge nurse on the unit aware of the situation so that he or she can take the necessary steps to maintain the confidentiality of the information being reported.

disregard the information because it changes quickly on the acute care unit and is outdated within 2–3 hours anyway.

return to his or her own unit and not disclose that confidential information has been overheard.

ignore the situation.