The nurse is teaching a patient the importance of completing treatment for gonorrhea. On which information is the nurse basing this teaching?
a. Gonorrhea is not treatable.
b. Only men experience symptoms; women are usually asymptomatic.
c. Men and women may be asymptomatic and still transmit the infection.
d. Treatment is associated with many serious side effects, so compliance is low.
ANS: C
B. Men may be asymptomatic or may have urethritis with a yellow urethral discharge. C. Women who have gonorrhea may have either no noticeable symptoms or have a sore throat, mucopurulent cervicitis (MPC), urethritis, or abnormal menstrual symptoms such as bleeding between periods. A. Gonorrhea is treatable with antibiotics, which have side effects, but not such serious side effects that compliance is affected.
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