Benefits of using standardized language for nursing diagnoses are that it:
1. provides a method for identifying the focus of nursing care and ensures that nursing care is documented in a retrievable manner for quality improvement.
2. emphasizes completion of nursing tasks and provides a method of identifying the focus of nursing care.
3. fosters nursing research and allows for third-party reimbursement for medical care.
4. emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to medical records and subsumes nursing under the medical model.
ANS: 1
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