A psychiatric–mental health nurse has identified nursing diagnoses relevant to a client's care. The organization of the client's nursing diagnoses is based on groups with common factors. This organizing scheme is known as what?
A) Clusters
B) Taxonomy
C) Axes
D) Levels
Ans: B
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Taxonomy means the organization of objects into related groups based on some common factor. The current NANDA Taxonomy II includes 13 domains subdivided into classes and further sorted into diagnoses.
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