The patient achieves comfort in breathing only when he assumes a sitting posture. During the charting of this position, the nurse can describe this as
a. dyspnea.
b. orthophrenia.
c. orthopnea.
d. orthuria.
C
Collection of subjective data includes complaints of dyspnea and orthopnea (an abnormal condition in which a person must sit or stand in order to breathe deeply or comfortably).
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