Question

The nurse is providing care for a pregnant client who has been given the necessary requisitions for laboratory work by the primary care provider. The client notices that the lab tests include testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, and expresses alarm, stating, "I don't understand why the doctor would suspect that I've got these diseases." What is the nurse's most therapeutic statement?

Answer 1

"Every client is tested for these diseases; it doens't not necessarily suggest that the doctor suspects that you have them"

Step-by-step explanation:

During pregnancy and childbirth, transmission of HIV (the virus that causes AIDS), as well as syphilis and hepatitis B to the baby may occur. HIV can also be transmitted during breastfeeding. That is why pregnant women, as well as their sexual partners, are tested for HIV, syphilis and hepatitis during prenatal and delivery, regardless of whether or not they are suspected.

This is a protocol, and it does not mean that the doctor is distrusting the patient, but that they are following a protocol and that they are taking care of the mother and the baby, so that they have the best care and treatment if necessary.

Answer 2

As the client expresses alarm is seems to be worried that she do not have those diseases including HIV and other sexually transmitted one, then why doctor had recommended for these tests. At that time the statement of the nurse that would console client will be 'Every pregnant woman is recommended to take tests for these diseases and it does not necessarily means that the patient is suffering from those disease these are just safety measures or precautions'.