A Patient Asks About the Effectiveness of Various Birth Control

question 2

Multiple Choice

A patient asks about the effectiveness of various birth control methods. The nurse should inform her that the most effective methods are what?

• A) Intrauterine devices (IUDs)
• B) Spermicides
• C) Intramuscular medroxyprogesterone acetate
• D) Etonogestrel subdermal implants
• E) Male or female sterilization

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Definitions:

Tracert

A Windows command line network troubleshooting command that displays the path a data packet takes through a network, thus allowing you to see where a fault occurs in larger networks. Compare with traceroute, used in macOS and Linux.

Latency

In networking, the amount of delay experienced as a packet travels from source to destination.

DHCP Server

Software configured on a network server or router that issues IP addresses from its pool of numbers upon request to a network device.

Ipconfig

A command used from a command prompt in Windows to view the current IP configuration settings.