Best NCLEX-RN Class: The Client with Reproductive Health Problems!
The NCLEX title covers:
- The Client with a Vaginal Infection
- The Client with Uterine Fibroids
- The Client with Breast Disease
- The Client with Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy
- The Client with a Sexually Transmitted Disease
- The Client with Cancer of the Cervix
- The Client with Cancer of the Ovaries
- The Client Having Gynecological Surgery
- The Client with Testicular Disease
- The Client with Cancer of the Prostate
- The Client with Erectile Dysfunction
- Managing Care Quality and Safety
- Answers, Rationales, and Test Taking Strategies
Endometriosis is a problem affecting a woman’s uterus—the place where a baby grows when a woman is pregnant. Endometriosis is when the kind of tissue that normally lines the uterus grows somewhere else. It can grow on the ovaries, behind the uterus, on the bowels, or on the bladder. Rarely, it grows in other parts of the body.
This “misplaced” tissue can cause pain, infertility, and very heavy periods. The pain is usually in the abdomen, lower back, or pelvic areas. Some women have no symptoms at all, and having trouble getting pregnant may be the first sign they have endometriosis.
Uterine fibroids are the most common noncancerous tumors in women of childbearing age. Fibroids are made of muscle cells and other tissues that grow in and around the wall of the uterus, or womb.
CDC provides information and educational materials for women and health care providers to raise awareness about the five main gynecologic cancers. Gynecologic cancer is any cancer that starts in a woman’s reproductive organs. Gynecologic cancers begin in different places within a woman’s pelvis, which is the area below the stomach and in between the hip bones.
Women who are infected with HIV typically get it by having sex with a man who is infected or by sharing needles with an infected person. Women of minority races/ethnicities are especially affected, and black or African American women are the most affected group.
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