The client tells the nurse that everything "tastes funny" since starting a new medication, making eating unpleasant. The nurse has given this medication to other clients, and has not heard this complaint from any of them
The nurse re-checks the drug information resource to learn whether this is a known side effect of the medication, and reads that it is. This information may be helpful in making a nursing diagnosis and in determining how best to address this problem. Subjective data for this client includes: 1. The client tells the nurse that, since starting a new medication, everything "tastes funny.".
2. The nurse has never experienced other clients who have taken this medication report this.
3. The nurse re-checks the drug reference to learn whether this is a known side effect of the medication.
4. The nurse reads that this medication can cause a metallic taste in some clients.
The client tells the nurse that, since starting a new medication, everything "tastes funny.".
Rationale: The statement by the client is subjective data, since the client tells the nurse something that only the client, and not the nurse, can perceive. The nurse's prior experience with this medication is not data about the client. Re-checking the drug reference is an example of the nurse obtaining factual information about the medication, and not data about the client. That this medication can cause a metallic taste in some clients is an example of factual information about the medication, and not data about the client.
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