When a problem is suspected but data to support it are lacking, the nursing diagnosis is:
a. a syndrome nursing diagnosis.
b. an actual nursing diagnosis.
c. a "risk for" diagnosis.
d. a possible nursing diagnosis.
D
A possible nursing diagnosis requires additional data to confirm a problem or complete a data cluster so that it can be related to a NANDA-I label.
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