Health Assessment Female Repro
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- 1st signs of puberty-female
- usu breast buds, sometimes pubic hair
- hair development starts at age _____
- 8-14
- preadolescent to adult takes ___ years
- 3
- Stages of puberty hair development 1-5
- 1: no hair, 2: slight & light, along labia, 3: darker, over pubis symphysis, 4: more, but not on thights, 5: adult, includes thighs
- skene's gland
- around urethral opening
- bartholin's glands
- 5-7 o'clock to introitus, should be painless
- pelvic muscle integrity
- cystocele, rectocele, enterocele, urinary incontinence; press down or up at vaginal opening and have pt bear down.
- uterine prolapse
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1st: cervix at introitus
2nd: cervix outside of introitus
3rd: complete - nabothian cysts
- benign condition; nabothian glands become covered with squamous cells (metaplasia) & become filled with secretions (cystic); no symptoms, usu discovered on exam, may or may not clear on own
- cervical polyps
- usu friable, happen as result of chronic inflammation, should be removed, may need further tx if infection involved
- GC, CT, Herpes, Pap--what to sample
- GC: mucous, CT: endocervical cells, Herpes: lesion scrapping, Pap: squamocolumnar junction