The nurse is teaching clients in the gynecological clinic about the dangers of gonorrhea. What should the nurse include in this teaching?
1. Gonorrhea has a foul discharge early in the disease.
2. The client will experience severe pain when infected.
3. The client will experience anorexia as the first sign of infection.
4. Symptoms do not appear until the infection is well advanced.
Answer: 4
1. There is a discharge noted with gonorrhea, but it is late in the infection and is not necessarily foul.
2. Severe pain is not a symptom of gonorrhea.
3. Anorexia is not an early sign of infection.
4. Gonorrhea does not produce signs and symptoms until the infection is well advanced. Prevention is the best treatment.
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