Nursing diagnoses:
a. provide a way for all health professionals to view a patient holistically and to combat the problem of mind-body dualism.
b. complement medical diagnoses and are best described as the patient's behavioral response to stress.
c. offer an alternative to health professionals who wish to use complementary treatment modalities in lieu of traditional medical treatment.
d. contribute little in the everyday clinical setting but do provide nurses with a common language to use for research on outcomes of standard nursing interventions.
B
Responses to stress, whether actual or potential, are the subject of nursing diagnoses. Nursing diagnoses complement rather than replace medical diagnoses.
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