While Attempting to Choose a Nursing Diagnosis,the Nurse Must Decide

While attempting to choose a nursing diagnosis,the nurse must decide whether the client is experiencing anxiety or fear.What key point would help the nurse make this decision?

A) Anxiety is a milder form of fear.
B) Fear results in a physiologic response,whereas anxiety is psychologic.
C) The source of fear is identifiable,but anxiety may be vague.
D) Anxiety is generally based in reality,fear is not.