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Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question

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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.
-No ferning of the vaginal fluid is detected,and you reassure your patient that her membranes have not ruptured.You explain that the laboratory technicians will use which five basic techniques (in order) to manipulate,grow,examine,and characterize any microorganisms present in the collected specimens?

Definitions:

Prostaglandins

A group of physiologically active lipid compounds having diverse hormone-like effects, such as regulating inflammation and body temperature.

Cortisol

A steroid hormone, secreted by the adrenal cortex, that helps the body adjust to long-term stress; stimulates conversion of other nutrients to glucose in the liver, resulting in increased blood glucose concentration.

Progesterone

A steroid hormone secreted by the corpus luteum of the ovary and by the placenta, which acts to prepare the uterus for implantation of the fertilized egg.

Secreted by Ovary

Refers to substances, such as hormones (e.g., estrogen and progesterone), that are released or produced by the ovaries.