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Which glands secrete clear lubricating mucus during intercourse?
Vestibular (Bartholin's) gland
EXTERNAL GENITALIA = VULVA INCLUDES
MON PUBIS
LABIA MAJORA
LABIA MINORA
FRENILUM
CLITORIS
VESTIBULE (URETHRAL MEATUS, OPENING OF SKENE'S GLAND, HYMEN, OPENING OF BARTHOLIN'S GLAND)
VAGINAL ORIFICE
WHICH STRUCTURE OF THE INTERNAL GENITALIA CHANGE IN SHAPE AFTER BIRTH?
OS: SLIGHTLY ENLARGED AND IRREGULAR
WHAT IS THE NORMAL COLOR OF VAGINA AND CERVIX?
SMOOTH AND PINK
WHAT IS THE COLOR OF ENDOCERVICAL CANAL?
RED AND ROUGH
AT BIRTH, FEMALE INFANTS HAVE EXTERNAL GENITIALIA ENGORGED, WHY?
BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF MATERNAL ESTROGEN
WHERE ARE THE INFANTS AND ADOLESCENTS' OVARIES LOCATED?
ABDOMEN
WHAT IS THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ASIAN FEMALES' PUBIC HAIR
FINE AND SPARSE
GOODELL'S SIGN
CERVIX SOFTENS
CHADWICK'S SIGN
VAGINAL MUCOSA AND CERVIX LOOK CYANOTIC
HEGAR'S SIGN
ISTHMUS OF THE UTERUS SOFTENS (6-8 WEEKS)
WHY VAGINAL AND CERVICAL SECRETIONS INCREASE DURING PREGNANCY AND ARE THICK, WHITE, AND MORE ACIDIC?
BECAUSE OF THE ACTION OF LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILLUS WHICH CHANGES GLYGOCEN INTO LACTIC ACID
THE GOOD AND BAD SIDES OF ACIDIC pH DURING PREGNANCY?
ACIDIC KEEP PATHOGNIC BATERIA FROM MULTIPLYING IN THE VAGINA, BUT THE INCREASE IN GLYCOGEN INTO LACTIC ACID
WHY THE UTERUS SHRINK IN SIZE IN AGING FEMALE ADULT?
DECREASED MYOMETRIUM
WHY DOES VAGINA IN AGING ADULTS BECOME SHORTER, NARROWER AND LESS ELASTIC?
BECAUSE OF INCREASED CONNECTIVE TISSUE
WHAT ARE STRUCTURAL CHANGES OF VAGINA IN AGING ADULTS?
VAGINAL EPITHELIUM ATROPHIES, BECOMING THINNER, DRIER, AND ITCHING
VAGINA BECOME SHORTER, NARROWER, AND LESS ELASTIC
WHAT ARE OTHER VAGINAL STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN AGING ADULTS
DECREASED VAGINAL SECRETIONS, LEAVE THE VAGINA DRY AND AT RISK FOR IRRITATION AND PAIN WITH INTERCOURSE (DYSPAREUNIA)
VAGINAL ph BECOME MORE ALKALINE, AND A DECREASED GLYCOGEN
DECREASED ESTROGEN
MONS PUBIS LOOKS SMALLER BECAUSE THE FAT FAD ATROPHIES
AMENORRHEA
ABSENT MENSES
MENORRHAGIA
HEAVY MENSES
DYSMENORRHEA
PAIN OR CRAMP MENSTRUATION
TERMS:
GRAVIDA?
PARA
ABORTIONS
GRAVIDA: NUMBER OF PREGNANCIES
PARA: NUMBER OF BIRTHS
ABORTIONS: INTERRUPTED PREGANCIES INCLUDING ELECTIVE ABORTIONS AND SPONTANEOUS MISCARRIAGES
S/S OF MENOPAUSE
HOT FLASH, NUMBNESS, TINGLING, HEADACHE, PALPITATIONS, DRENCHING SWEATS, MOOD SWINGS, VAGINAL DRYNESS
SIDE EFFECTS OF HORMONE THERAPY INCLUDE? MAY PUT CLIENT AT RISK FOR WHAT?
FLUID RETENTION, BREAST PAIN OR ENLARGEMENT, VAGINAL BLEEDING, POSSIBLY BREAST CANCER RISK
WHAT HAPPENS TO FEMALE OFFSPRING WHEN MOTHER INGESTS DES (DIETHYLSTILBESTROL) DURING PREGNANCY?
CAUSES CERVICAL AND VAGINAL ABNORMALITIES
DYSURIA
BURING AND PAINFUL URINATION
NOCTURIA
NIGHT URINATION MORE THAN ONCE
HEMATURIA
URINATE WITH BLOOD
TRUE INCONTINENCE
LOSS OF URINE W/O WARNING
URGENCY INCONTINENCE
SUDDEN LOSS, AS WITH ACUTE CYSTITIS
STRESS INCONTINENCE
LOSS OF URINE WITH PHYSICAL STRAIN FROM MUSCLE WEAKNESS
FACTORS THAT INCREASE RISK OF VAGINITIS?
ORAL CONCEPTIVES
BROAD SPECTRUM ANTIBIOTICS
DIABETES
MENSES, POST PARTUM, MENOPAUSE
FREQUENT DOUCHNG
SPRAY
LOCAL IRRITATION
IF A FEMALE SMOKES AND TAKE CONTRACEPTIVE TOGETHER, SHE IS AT RISK FOR WHAT?
VASCULAR PROBLEMS
AS A NURSE, YOU KNOW WHEN TO CONSIDER INFERTILITY?
AFTER 1 YEAR OF ENGAING IN UNPROTECTED SEXUAL INTERCOURSE W/O CONCEIVING
WHAT ARE THE STEPS IN OBTAINING OBJECTIVE DATA?
POSITION
EXTERNAL GENITALIA (INSPECTIONG, PALPATION)
INTERNAL GENITALIA (SPECULUM EXAMINATION, INSPECT THE CERVIX AND ITS OS FOR COLOR, POSITION, SIZE, OS,OBTAIN CERVICAL SMEARS AND CULTURES, INSPECT VAGINAL WALL, BIMANUAL EXAMINATION, RECTOVAGINAL EXAMINATION)
HOW DO YOU POSITION FEMALE CLIENT FOR YOUR EXAMINATION?
LITHOTOMY
WHAT SHOULD YOU ASK YOUR PATIENT TO DO BEFORE THE EXAMINATION
EMPTY THE BLADDER
OBJECTIVE DATA: EXTERNAL GENITALIA (767): you are inspecting your client's external genitalia and you know that there should be no lesions, but it is normal that you found:
sebaceous cysts = yellowish, 1-cm nodules that are firm, non-tender, and often multiple
BULGING OF THE VAGINAL WALL INDICATES WHAT?
CYSTOCELE, RECTOCELE OR UTERIN PROLAPSE
INTERNAL GENITALIA: SPECULUM EXAMINATION: Why do you avoid using gel lubricant to lubricate your instrument at this point?
Because gel lubricant is bacteriostatic and it may distort cells in the cytology specimen you will collect
EXTERNAL GENITALIA: SPECULUM EXAMINATION (770): For easy insertion the speculum, you ask the woman to bear down , what is the benefit of that?
to relax the perneal muscles and opens the introitus
Nabothian cysts: Normal or Abnormal
Benign growths that commonly appear on the cervix after childbirth
Why should you obtain endocervical specimen last?
the bleeding from pinking with the brush will not obscure cytologic evaluation
The use of acetic acid wash to test for HPV infection, a normal response is no change in the cervical epithelium, what is the abnormal response of HPV Infection?
Rapid acetowhitening or blanching, especially with irregular borders
VAGINAL DISCHARGE ASSOSCIATED WITH CANDIDIASIS
THICK, WHITE, AND CURDLIKE
VAGINAL DISCHARGE: TRICHOMONIASIS
PROFUSE, WATERY, GRAY-GREEN, AND FROTHY
WHEN YOU EXAMINE SCHOOL-AGE CHILD, WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
STRUCTURES ARE INTACT, VAGINA IS PRESENT, HYMEN IS PATENT
IS IT NORMAL THAT SANGUINEOUS VAGINAL DISCHARGE OR LEUKORRHEA FOUND ON INFANT DURING THE FIRST FEW WEEKS
YES, BECAUSE OF THE MATERNAL ESTROGEN EFFECT
INDICATION OF IMPERFORATE HYMEN?
AMENORRHEA IN ADLESCENT, TOGETHER WITH BLUISH, AND BULGING HYMEN
CRAB LICE (PEDICULOSIS PUBIS)
S: SEVERE PERINEAL ITCHING
O: EXCORIATIONS AND ERYTHEATOUS AREAS
HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS - TYPE 2
S: EPISODES OF LOCAL PAIN, DYSURIA, FEVER
O: CLUSTERS OF SMALL, SHALLOW VESICLES WITH SURROUNDING ERYTHEMA
INGUINAL EDENOPATHY, EDEMA
VESICLE RUPTURES IN 1-3DAYS, LEAVING PAINFUL ULCERS
SYPHILITIC CHANCRE
BEGIINS AS A SMALL, SOLITARY SILVER PAPULE THAT ERODES TO A RED, AROUND OR OVAL, SUPERIFICAL ULCER WITH A YELLOWISH SEROUS DISCHARGE
NONTENDER INGUINALLYMPHADENOPATHY