After Assessing a Patient, a Nurse Develops a Standard Formal

question 15

Multiple Choice

After assessing a patient, a nurse develops a standard formal nursing diagnosis. What is the rationale for the nurse's actions?

• A) To form a language that can be encoded only by nurses
• B) To distinguish the nurse's role from the physician's role
• C) To develop clinical judgment based on other's intuition
• D) To help nurses focus on the scope of medical practice

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