When nursing diagnoses were first proposed and a series of conferences were held with nurse theorists, a means of organizing the diagnoses was adopted. The means of organizing the diagnoses is the concept of:
a. simple to complex
b. young to old
c. human response patterns
d. human needs hierarchy
C
The concept of the human response patterns was adopted as a means of organizing or grouping a series of diagnoses, though not included in taxonomy II. The notion of human response patterns was derived from the American Nurses Association's definition of nursing as "the response to actual or potential health problems."
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