In addition to identifying responses to actual or potential health problems, what is another purpose of the diagnosing step in the nursing process?
A) to collect information about subjective and objective data
B) to correlate nursing and medical diagnostic criteria
C) to identify etiologies of health problems
D) to evaluate mutually developed expected outcomes
C
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