The intake nurse takes a psychiatric history of a client presenting for admission. In the mental status evaluation, the nurse observes circumstantiality. In which section of the MSE will the nurse document the finding?

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Circumstantiality is a characteristic of speech and is related to tangentiality, so the finding would be documented in the Characteristics of Speech section of the MSE.

The Intake Nurse Takes a Psychiatric History of a Client