When educating a female client with gonorrhea, the nurse should emphasize that for
women, gonorrhea: - answer May not cause symptoms until serious complications
occur.
A nurse should understand that prevention of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in
young women of childbearing age is important for which reason? - answer PID can
have devastating effects on the reproductive tract of affected young women.
When interviewing a client newly diagnosed with syphilis, the nurse should be aware
that the most important way to control the spread of the infection is what? - answer
Obtaining a list of the client's
sexual contacts
After a nurse has completed discharge teaching, which statement made by a client
treated for a sexually transmitted infection (STI) would indicate that discharge
instructions were understood? - answer "I will notify my sex partners."
A client is diagnosed with cystitis. Client teaching aimed at preventing a reoccurrence
should include which instruction? - answer Wear underwear with a cotton lining.
The student nurse is teaching a group of clients about the factors that contribute to the
development of urinary tract infections. Which factors should the student nurse include?
- answer Birth control methods
Improper hygiene
Being sexually active
Diabetes mellitus
Early diagnosis and treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease may benefit the woman by
retaining her fertility. What lab and diagnostic tests would the nurse expect the health
care provider to order for a client with symptoms of PID? - answer C-reactive protein
VDRL (venereal disease research laboratory)
Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR)
Cultures from vagina and cervix
A student nurse is doing a presentation about factors that put a client at an increased
risk of pyelonephritis. Which factors should the nurse include in the presentation? -
answer History of diabetes mellitus
The nurse is teaching a client how to obtain a clean-catch urine specimen. Which
instruction should be included? - answer Never use the first voided specimen of the
day.