All of the following are strategies to help the nurse avoid making common diagnostic errors except
a. recognizing that the initial diagnosis will always remain constant
b. avoid personal bias in interpreting data
c. use of an organizational framework for clustering data cues
d. continued collection and analysis of data for use in the revision process
A
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