The following are selected steps of the diagnostic reasoning process. Place them in the proper sequence from first to last
A) Check for defining characteristics
B) Draw inferences
C) Propose possible nursing diagnoses
D) Identify abnormal data and strengths
E) Cluster data
A, B, C, D, E
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