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

Multiple Choice

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 sterile vaginal fluid specimen is sent for culture.The RN educates the patient about the five basic techniques utilized by laboratory technicians to manipulate,grow,examine,and characterize any microorganisms present in the specimen.Which of the following is the correct order of steps for processing the specimen?

A) Isolation,incubation,inspection,identification,and inoculation
B) Inspection,identification,isolation,incubation,and inoculation
C) Identification,isolation,incubation,inspection,and inoculation
D) Inoculation,incubation,isolation,inspection,and identification