This patient was a seventeen-year-old girl who believed she had been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease. This girl has had two sexually transmitted diseases in the past: chlamydia and trichomoniasis. She believed she had contracted chlamydia again because she had intercourse on August 28 and her partner told her he might have chlamydia. The patient also needed a pregnancy test because she believed she could be pregnant. The Pregnancy Resource Center had told the patient that she was pregnant, but she believed she had a miscarriage since then. So, Vicki had the patient give a urine sample and then brought her to a back room for STD testing. This back room is a room designated for this very purpose. In order to test for sexually transmitted diseases, Vicki took several different swabs of the genital area: each swab is for a different disease. They would send these swabs to the lab and later find out if the patient had been infected. I was not able to find out if she had contracted any diseases, or if she was pregnant, because I had to
This patient was a seventeen-year-old girl who believed she had been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease. This girl has had two sexually transmitted diseases in the past: chlamydia and trichomoniasis. She believed she had contracted chlamydia again because she had intercourse on August 28 and her partner told her he might have chlamydia. The patient also needed a pregnancy test because she believed she could be pregnant. The Pregnancy Resource Center had told the patient that she was pregnant, but she believed she had a miscarriage since then. So, Vicki had the patient give a urine sample and then brought her to a back room for STD testing. This back room is a room designated for this very purpose. In order to test for sexually transmitted diseases, Vicki took several different swabs of the genital area: each swab is for a different disease. They would send these swabs to the lab and later find out if the patient had been infected. I was not able to find out if she had contracted any diseases, or if she was pregnant, because I had to