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• When performing an assessment the nurse

                                                                                    gathers subjective and objective data







                                                                                 a. Subjective data (symptoms or covert data):
                    Types of data                                                       ➢are the verbal statements provided by the



                                                                                            Patient.


                                                                                        ➢Statements about nausea and descriptions of

                                                                                            pain and


                                                                                        ➢fatigue are examples of subjective data
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