Nursing diagnoses that require physician-prescribed and nurse-prescribed actions would be what type of problems?
A) Independent health problems
B) Collaborative health problems
C) Physician-developed problems
D) Interdisciplinary health problems
Ans: B
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If problems require physician-prescribed and nurse-prescribed actions, they are collaborative health problems.
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