A nurse develops nursing diagnoses, which are:
a. Used to identify client's risk factors.
b. Based on the client's chief complaint or concern.
c. Selected after objective and subjective data are collected and clustered.
d. Derived from the objective assessment of data collected by the nurse.
ANS: C
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