😰PAIN SCALES: SUBjective vs. OBjective follow @nursewellversed for visual nursing education If you guessed PAIN is the commonly referred to “6th vital sign” from my last post, you’d be correct! It’s really important to assess your patient’s pain, but in order to do that you first need to understand how and when to use the proper pain scale. SUBjective pain scales gather information from the SUBject aka patient OBjective pain scales gather information via personal assessment from you (the nurse)