CIRCULATORY BALANCE
What is dehydration?
Incontinence that happens due to your inability to make it to the toilet in time due to mobility
What is functional incontinence?
Supplying water to the body to maintain fluid balance
What is hydration?
A combination of stress and urge incontinence
What is mixed incontinence?
Substances made when the body breaks down fat for energy
What is ketones?
Nutrition administered intravenously
What is total parenteral nutrition/TPN?
Surgically created opening that is kept open for drainage or the removal of waste
What is stoma?
Occurs when the bladder doesn't fully empty causing constant or frequent dribbling
What is overflow incontinence?
This blood can be unseen/hidden in stool
What is occult Blood?
A special diet used as a treatment for a disease or condition
What is therapeutic diet?
Surgical procedure that creates and opening from the intestine to outside the body for the discharge of wastes
What is ostomy?
Occurs when pressure is put on the bladder like coughing, sneezing, laughing, lifting or exercising
What is stress incontinence?
Urinate or empty the bladder
What is void?
Providing liquid nourishment using a nasogastric tube or a tube surgically inserted through the abdominal wall into the stomach
What is enteral nutrition?
Difficulty swallowing food, liquid and/or medication
What is dysphagia?
A sudden strong urge to urinate; followed by urinary leakage
What is urge incontinence?