A client has just been admitted, is complaining of shortness of breath, has no pallor, no cyanosis and no accessory muscle use with respirations. The client's respiratory rate is 16 breaths per minute. The nurse is performing the assessment and continues to ask herself how the client's report and the physical findings conflict. This nurse is using which universal standard of critical thinking?

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Logicalness.The nurse is using logicalness to compare the client's report of shortness of breath with the physical findings of no pallor, no cyanosis, and no accessory muscle use with respirations. The nurse is trying to determine if the client's report is consistent with the physical findings.

A Client Has Just Been Admitted, Is Complaining of Shortness