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.
-When utilizing a light microscope,the specimen on the glass slide must be in proper position to ensure illumination of the specimen for visualization.The glass slide is placed in which of the following positions?

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The glass slide with the specimen should be placed between the condenser lens and the objective lens to ensure proper illumination of the specimen for visualization through the light microscope. This is because the concave mirror located beneath the stage reflects light up through the hole in the stage and through the specimen. The light then passes through the condenser, which focuses and concentrates the light onto the specimen to improve image clarity before it enters the objective lens.

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