When applying the nursing process to patients, the nurse knows that the goal of data analysis is
a. to decide when new assessments should occur.
b. to ensure that enough data have been collected.
c. the creation of appropriate nursing diagnoses.
d. to discovery disparities in the collected data.
C
Data analysis is used to formulate sound nursing diagnoses.
Assessment should be an ongoing process.
Ensuring adequate data collection is a good practice, but that is not the goal of analysis.
Analyzing data can reveal discrepancies in the data set, but that is not the goal of analysis.
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