A nurse is conducting a head-to-toe assessment of a middle-aged female patient. The nurse has palpated the breasts of a patient and believes that a mass is palpable in one of her breasts. How should the nurse best document this assessment finding?
A) "Medium-sized mass palpable in the medial portion of the left breast."
B) "Malignant mass palpable in the upper left lobe of the patient's left breast."
C) "One-centimeter mass palpable 2 cm from nipple at the two o'clock position."
D) "Mass palpable in the subcutaneous tissue of patient's left breast, approximately 4 cm from sternum."
C
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