Nur1101 nursing diagnosis - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

NUR 1101 Nursing Diagnosis. 1. 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 ANS: B The standard formal nursing diagnosis serves several purposes. Nursing diagnoses dist...