A nurse suspects that a client has a personality disorder in addition to displaying symptoms of a mood disorder. To determine whether these observations are correct, the nurse could look in the client's medical record on the DSM-IV-TR
a. axis I.
b. axis II.
c. axis III.
d. axis IV.
Ans: b. axis II.
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