The client arrives at the clinic and informs the nurse that he is "coughing, having a sore throat, and have been running a fever for 2 days." What are these feelings of discomfort called?
A) Signs
B) Objective data
C) Symptoms
D) Clinical signs
C
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When the client tells the nurse about nausea, pain, fear, bloating, or other feelings of discomfort, he or she is providing subjective data. These feelings of discomfort are classed as symptoms. Signs are objective data that is abnormal, and objective data is what the nurses obtain through observation, physical examination, and diagnostic testing. Clinical signs are the same as signs.
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