During the admission assessment of a new client, the nurse has collected and documented a set of vital signs to serve as baselines for future assessment. The client's vital signs would be considered to be what?
A) Judgments
B) Nursing diagnoses
C) Cues
D) Inferences
Ans: C
Objective data such as vital signs and laboratory results are cues that can be used as the basis for subsequent steps in the nursing process.
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