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While caring for a client who is being treated for severe pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), the nurse insists on keeping the client in a semi-sitting position. The nurse advises this in order to: Correct response:

facilitate pelvic drainage and minimize the upward extension of the

infection. Which is the earliest and the most common symptom of endometrial cancer? Correct response:

bleeding

A patient has been diagnosed with a vaginal infection and received a prescription for metronidazole (Flagyl). The nurse knows that this is the recommended treatment for a vaginal infection caused by what organism? Correct response:

Trichomonas vaginalis

A nurse practitioner examines a patient suspected of having endometriosis. The nurse knows that although a definitive diagnosis could not be made without diagnostic treatment (transvaginal ultrasound), the most frequent symptom is: Correct response:

Chronic pelvic pain.

A nurse is providing breast cancer education at a community facility. The American Cancer Society recommends that women get mammograms: Correct response:

yearly starting at age 45.

A client tells the nurse that she has found a painless lump in her right breast during her monthly self-examination. Which assessment finding would strongly suggest that this client's lump is cancerous? Correct response:

Nonmobile mass with irregular edges

How can breast cancer prevention programs best serve at-risk women from lower socioeconomic backgrounds? Correct response:

Develop screening and educational programs.

Sentinel lymph node mapping is done to validate the lack of lymph node metastasis. Which complication does this technique help avoid? Correct response:

Lymphedema

The nurse teaches a premenopausal female client to perform breast self-examination (BSE) at which interval? Correct response:

On day 5 to day 7, counting the first day of menses as day 1

Which is a characteristic of a breast cancer mass? Correct response:

Firm, hard, embedded in surrounding tissue

A group of students are reviewing the anatomy and physiology of the breasts. The students demonstrate understanding of breast structure when they identify the tail of Spence as an extension of which quadrant?...