The nurse is providing care to a postpartum client 24 hours after delivery who has been diagnosed with metritis. Which response by the nurse is accurate when the client asks what made her sick?
1. "Early infections such as this are often caused by group beta strep (GBS)."
2. "Most infections are often caused by a chlamydial infection. Do you practice safe sex?"
3. "You must have already been sick when you came to deliver your baby."
4. "There is no way to knowing why you got sick. Sometimes it just happens."
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Explanation:
1. Most early metritis infections are caused by group beta strep (GBS).
2. Most late, not early, metritis infections are caused by chlamydia. Also, it is not appropriate to ask her about safe sex practices at this time.
3. Telling the client that she was sick when she came to deliver the baby is often not true and does not specifically address the client's question.
4. This response is inaccurate as most cases of early metritis are attributed to a GBS infection.
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