When an older female patient complains of painful sexual intercourse, what should the nurse recognize as the probable cause?
a. Urinary incontinence
b. Arthritic joints
c. Kyphosis
d. Mucosal drying
ANS: D
Sexual intercourse may be uncomfortable because of drying of the mucosa of the vagina.
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