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Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
A 68-year-old male presents to the emergency department with complaints of a 2-day history of difficulty breathing, cough, and chest pain. Upon triage assessment, the patient is found to have a fever, increased work of breathing, decreased oxygen saturation, and crackles upon auscultation of the lungs. A chest X ray reveals consolidation in the right upper lung field. The patient is diagnosed with pneumonia, initiated on oxygen therapy, and admitted for observation and treatment.
-As the RN,you document the care and assessment of the patient in the chart prior to transfer to an inpatient unit.What is the most appropriate term for the clinical manifestations of disease?


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