Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question

question 32

Multiple Choice

Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
You begin your shift at the inner city outreach clinic when a young woman enters crying. She is 19 years old and 28 weeks pregnant with her second child. Her complaint is that she woke this morning leaking clear to milky-colored fluid vaginally. Her first child was born 6 weeks early due to premature rupture of membranes and she is worried this is happening again. You reassure the patient, and explain that a vaginal speculum exam will be performed and specimens will be taken for examination. Once obtaining the proper specimens, you label them appropriately, and send the wet mount and culturette to the laboratory for processing.
-You understand that a microscopic view is needed to visualize microbes that fall within the 1-10 µm micrometer size range but also to detect characteristic ferning of amniotic fluid.Which type of microscope will be used by the laboratory technicians to make these observations of the patient sample?

• A)electron microscope
• B)light microscope
• C)confocal microscope
• D)fluorescent microscope

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Definitions:

Underground Stems

Stems that grow beneath the surface of the soil which function in nutrient storage and vegetative reproduction.

Fleshy Leaves

Thickened leaves adapted for water storage, common in plants that live in arid environments.

Bulbs

Underground storage organs, consisting of a short stem surrounded by fleshy scales (leaves), used for plant propagation.

Alternate Leaf

A pattern of leaf arrangement on a stem where each leaf emerges at different points, creating a spiral or alternate configuration.