Exam 5: Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology

The clinic nurse knows that the part of the uterine cycle that occurs during the period of time between ovulation and the onset of menses is known as which of the following?

A nurse is teaching a class about gender maturation.What information is most accurate?

A nurse is examining a patient's Skene's glands.What action is best to visualize these structures?

A mother brings her 9-year-old daughter to the family practice clinic.She is worried because the daughter already has definite breast buds and is asking to wear a bra.What response by the nurse is best?

The nurse knows that in any volume of ejaculate,what percentage of sperm is motile?

A family practice nurse is providing anticipatory guidance to an 11-year-old boy.What information about puberty should the nurse plan to include?

The nurse teaching a course in human reproduction informs the class that which reproductive structure is the first to form in the embryo?

In providing anticipatory guidance to a 12-year-old female who has developed breast buds,what information should the nurse provide?

The perinatal nurse mentor teaches the new nurse about the functions of cervical mucus.What information should the nurse include?

A woman is having an infertility workup and has been told she has scarring of her fallopian tubes.What action by the nurse is best?

A nurse working in the infertility clinic counsels a couple about male fertility.What assessment question to a male by the nurse would yield the most important information?

A woman in the clinic complains of severe hot flashes associated with perimenopause.Her past medical history includes deep vein thrombosis (DVT)10 years ago.The nurse can anticipate teaching the woman about what treatment?

The OB nurse knows the menstrual cycle is controlled by the complex interplay of hormones that are secreted by which physiological structures?

A new nurse is attempting to catheterize a female patient.The nurse has a difficult time and after three attempts,finally inserts the catheter into the bladder and has urine output.What suggestion by the more experienced nurse is best?

A 14-year-old girl asks the school nurse why her periods are so irregular.What is the best response by the nurse?

A nurse has taught a woman about the physical signs that accompany ovulation.Which statement by the patient indicates that teaching has been effective?

A woman who might be pregnant is excited to learn when she will know the gender of the baby.What is the best response by the nurse?

A nursing instructor is planning to teach students about the process of oogenesis.Which information does the nurse plan to include?

The nurse understands that the genetic possibility of a woman having a male or a female child is based on the single sex chromosome provided by each parent (mother is XX, father is XY, and each contributes one chromosome). Fill in the boxes below with the possibilities based on the single chromosome that is contributed by each parent in these four possible combinations. For the purpose of this exercise, the mother's chromosomes are designated X(m1) and X(m2), and the father's are designated X(f) and Y(f). The result of any XX chromosome pair yields a girl, and XY a boy. 1. Mother’s sex chromosome _____ Father’s sex chromosome _____ Child is a _____________ 2. Mother’s sex chromosome _____ Father’s sex chromosome _____ Child is a _____________ 3. Mother’s sex chromosome _____ Father’s sex chromosome _____ Child is a _____________ 4. Mother’s sex chromosome _____ Father’s sex chromosome _____ Child is a _____________

The nurse explains to the student that the development of the lining of the uterus is mediated by which hormone?