A patient is complaining to the nurse that he feels the need to have a bowel movement but has not been able to defecate. He has had cramping and even a small amount of brown watery stool. What should the nurse recognize these symptoms as?
a. Diarrhea
b. Fecal incontinence
c. Fecal impaction
d. Flatulence
C
Symptoms of a fecal impaction include painful defecation, a feeling of fullness in the rectum, abdominal distention, and sometimes cramps and a watery stool.
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