A postoperative patient has denied the need for pain medication. The nurse has noted that the patient describes the pain as a "1" on a 0 to 10 scale
The nurse also notes that the patient gri-maces when he or she changes position and guards the incision. The nurse believes that the pa-tient is experiencing pain based on the information gathered in the assessment. What is this phe-nomenon known as? a. Cue
b. Inference
c. Diagnosis
d. Health pattern
B
The nurse made a judgment, which is an inference, that the patient is experiencing pain. An in-ference is a nurse's judgment or interpretation of a cue. A cue is information that you obtain through use of the senses. Gordon's functional health patterns are a type of database format to obtain a comprehensive assessment. A nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual and potential health problems or life processes that the nurse is licensed and competent to treat such as impaired tissue perfusion.
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