Problem
I. A second-year nursing student is tutoring a first-year nursing student about the gastrointestinal system, which is the only system in the body that is open to the external environment. The gastrointestinal system is responsible for only a very small part of waste excretion. The nursing student is making a bullet list of key points reviewed during the tutoring session.
i. What are the four major activities of the gastrointestinal system?
ii. How does the nervous system control the gastrointestinal system?
iii. How does the swallowing reflex work?
iv. How does the vomiting reflex work?
II. A school nurse is preparing a presentation on the reproductive system for a health class. The school nurse needs to review the effects of the sex hormones estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. A review of the various phases of the human sexual response needs to be included in the presentation.
i. What are the effects of estrogen?
ii. What are the effects of progesterone?
iii. What are the effects of testosterone?
iv. What is the clinical presentation of each stage of the human sexual response?
v. What are the changes that occur to the female body during pregnancy?