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?

Question

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?

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

A light microscope is commonly used for observing biological specimens and has the ability to magnify up to 1000 times. It can visualize microbes in the 1-10 µm micrometer size range and identify the characteristic ferning pattern of amniotic fluid. Electron microscopes have a higher magnification but are not commonly used in clinical laboratories. Confocal and fluorescent microscopes are used for specific purposes and are not routinely used in this type of examination.

Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question