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 patient asks how microbes from her body can be grown in the lab.The RN explains that specimens are introduced to nutrient medium and that any growth of the microbe that appears after incubating the specimen is called the ________.

A) colony
B) culture
C) microorganism
D) infectious agent