An RN is working at an urban low-income medical clinic when a young woman enters crying. She is 19 years old and 28 weeks pregnant with her second child. The woman reports that she woke this morning to find she was leaking 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, explain that a vaginal speculum exam will be performed, and educate her about specimens that will be collected. Once the proper specimens are obtained and appropriately labeled, the wet mount and culturette are sent to the laboratory for processing.
-The RN understands that along with a pH test,a microscopic view is needed to perform the ferning test to detect an amniotic fluid leak.The patient sample is prepared on a glass slide and examined under 10x magnification.Which type of microscope will be used to make this observation of the patient sample?

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A light microscope is commonly used in medical laboratories to view specimens at low magnification such as preparing and observing patient samples for the ferning test. Electron microscopes and confocal microscopes are used in more specialized fields, while fluorescent microscopes are used to observe fluorescently labeled specimens.

An RN Is Working at an Urban Low-Income Medical Clinic