A nurse has assessed a patient's orientation during the initial head-to-toe assessment near the beginning of a shift. The patient is able to state his own full name and knows the name of the hospital but is unable to identify the month and the year
How should the nurse best document this assessment finding?
A) "Patient is demonstrating signs of decreased neurological function."
B) "Patient is disoriented."
C) "Patient is oriented to person and place, but unable to state month and year."
D) "Patient is oriented to person, oriented to place, but not oriented to time."
C
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