Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher

Exercise 1

A patient has come to the health clinic with diarrhea of 3 days' duration.He says the stools occur five or six times per day and are very watery.Every time he eats or drinks something, he has an urgent diarrhea stool.He denies being out of the country but did attend a large family reunion held at a campground in the mountains about a week ago.Identify the areas of symptom investigation using PQRST that still need to be addressed to provide additional important information (select all that apply).
A) Timing
B) Quality
C) Severity
D) Palliative
E) Radiation
F) precipitating