Help!

I am not sure exactly what you are looking for but here goes: pain with urination, dark concentrated urine, may have a foul odor, may have some low abdominal discomfort, frequent urge to urinate.

Frequent need to urinate, concentrated urine, may be foul smelling, pain on urination, may experience some lower abdominal discomfort, fever (may or may not be present)

"Objective cues"? Are you talking about S/S of urinary frequency (uh, I can only think of one, and that's the fact that she is urinating frequently), or are you asking for hints about what the goals of a careplan for urinary frequency should include?

The previous poster listed S/S of a UTI, which isn't necessarily helpful for you, since urinary frequency is a normal occurrence with pregnancy.

Cues are signs and symptoms. You posted this same question last evening on the Nursing Student Assistance forum and I posted an answer for you: http://allnurses.com/nursing-student-assistance/i-need-cues-423199.html - I need cues!!! For objective cues you need to watch and count how often and how frequently the patient is urinating. Look up urinary frequency in a nursing textbook, not just an OB textbook. This has to do with basic nursing assessment of the GU system and does not just involve OB patients or women specifically.


Cues (signs and symptoms) can be objective or subjective:

• Objective: ". . .in medicine, designating or of a symptom or condition perceptible to others besides the patient" (page 1012, Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, College Edition, 1966).
• Subjective: . . . in medicine, designating or of a symptom or condition perceptible only to the patient" (page 1452, Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, College Edition, 1966).