Thursday, November 12, 2009

question of the week

Question of the week for 11.09.09

A client telephones the community clinic to ask about a home pregnancy test she used this morning. A nurse should understand that the presence of which hormone strongly suggests that a woman is pregnant?

1. Estrogen
2. Human chorionic gonadotropin
3. Alpha-fetoprotein
4. Progesterone

3 comments:

  1. The correct answer is number: 2

    Wong, D., Perry, S., & Hockenberry, M.
    Maternal child nursing care (3rd ed.). (2006).
    St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.

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  2. hey ann (or anyone else who might know the answer), do you know when our exact graduation date is? just so we can start counting down??

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  3. i dunno...but we can put a countdown clock up when we figure it out!

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