NCLEX Quiz

• A middle aged woman talks to the nurse in the health care provider’s office about uterine fibroids also called leiomyomas or myomas. What statement by the woman indicates more education is needed?
• 1. “I am one out of every 4 women that get fibroids, and of women my age – between the 30s or 40s, fibroids occure more frequently.”
• 2. “My fibroids are noncancerous tumors that grow slowly.”
• 3. “My associated problems I have had are pelvic pressure and pain, urinary incontinence, frequent urination or urine retention and constipation.”
• 4. “Fibroids that cause no problems still need to be taken out.”
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