Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question

Multiple Choice

Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
You begin your shift at the inner city outreach clinic when a young woman enters crying. She is 19 years old and 28 weeks pregnant with her second child. Her complaint is that she woke this morning leaking clear to 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, and explain that a vaginal speculum exam will be performed and specimens will be taken for examination. Once obtaining the proper specimens, you label them appropriately, and send the wet mount and culturette to the laboratory for processing.
-Gram stain results from the patient specimen indicate a bacterial infection.From your microbiology course,you remember that this staining procedure involves

A) forcing a dye into resistant bodies with heat to distinguish between spores and cells.
B) timed,sequential applications of crystal violet dye,iodine,an alcohol rinse,and a contrasting counterstain to the sample.
C) application of the dye,carbol fuchsin,followed by an acid alcohol rinse.
D) application of India ink to detect the presence of bacterial capsules.