Multiple Choice
The nurse is providing care to a patient who is nauseous, vomiting, experiencing abdominal pain, and has no bowel sounds. The nurse concludes the patient's symptoms may be associated with a paralytic ileus. Which type of thinking is the nurse using to arrive at this conclusion?
A) Inductive reasoning
B) Deductive reasoning
C) Guesswork
D) Diagnostics
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