A nurse who works on a urology-gynecology ward of a hospital is coming on shift and will be caring for a 34-year-old women who has been admitted overnight for the treatment of a large endometriosis. What interventions should the nurse most realistically anticipate providing over the course of the shift and the next several days?
A) Providing pain control; preparing the client for a laparoscopic procedure or hysterectomy.
B) Administration of packed red blood cells to compensate for low hemoglobin; administering hormone therapy.
C) Assisting with a Pap smear; administration of high-dose corticosteroids.
D) Administration of male androgens to minimize endometrial hyperplasia; facilitating a dilation and curettage.

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Pain control is central to treatment of endometriosis, and surgical treatment is ideally performed laparoscopically, though hysterectomy is sometimes indicated. Bleeding is not a common symptom of endometriosis, and neither corticosteroids nor male androgens are common treatments.

A Nurse Who Works on a Urology-Gynecology Ward of a Hospital