The nurse is attempting to develop Nursing diagnoses for a patient. The nurse understands that Nursing diagnoses have which characteristics?
A) Nursing diagnoses identify actual or potential problems as well as responses to a problem.
B) Nursing diagnoses require naming patient problems using Nursing diagnostic labels.
C) Nursing diagnoses utilize objective data since subjective data are often inaccurate.
D) Nursing diagnoses include unvalidated data to determine an accurate and thorough diagnosis.
E) Nursing diagnoses are similar to medical diagnoses since they both are labels for diseases.

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The Nursing diagnosis identifies an actual or potential problem or response to a problem. Accurate identification of Nursing diagnoses for patients results from carefully analyzing, validating, and clustering related patient subjective (symptoms) and objective (signs) data. If data collection includes inaccurate or inadequate information or if data are not validated or clustered with related information, a patient may be misdiagnosed. Diagnosis in the nursing process requires naming patient problems using Nursing diagnostic labels. Medical diagnoses are labels for diseases, whereas Nursing diagnoses describe a response to an actual or potential problem or life process.

The Nurse Is Attempting to Develop Nursing Diagnoses for a Patient