International Classification of Nursing Practice is a:
a. standardized classification of patient/client outcomes.
b. set of nursing diagnoses.
c. standardized classification of interventions.
d. unified nursing language system into which nursing terminologies can be cross-mapped.
ANS: D
The ICNP is a unified nursing language system into which nursing terminologies can be cross-mapped.
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