Assess/Labs
What renal disorder involves the presence of calculi (stones) in the urinary tract?
What is urolithiasis?
True or false. Do you report laboratory and diagnostic findings to the provider?
What is true?
What medication is used to treat severe pain with renal calculi?
What is Opioids / Morphine?
Dark stools can indicate bleeding caused by which medications?
What is NSAIDs?
True or false. Renal calculi has increased incidence in males.
What is True
How do you promote the passage of calculus?
What is encourage fluid intake / ambulation?
What nursing intervention will prevent client constipation?
What is encourage fluid intake?
What can be consumed to alkalinize the urine?
What is lemon or orange juice?
What laboratory test determines the type of calculi?
What is urinalysis?
What is the suggested oral intake of a patient with renal calculi?
What is 3 liters a day unless contraindicated.
Which medication is used to treat mild to moderate pain, fever, and inflammation?
What is Ketoralac / NSAIDS?
When you use shock wave energies to break calculi into fragments with ESWL, this happens to the client's skin?
What is bruising?
Flank pain suggests calculi are located where?
What is the kidney or ureter?
What are the primary assessments to monitor?
What is pain, urine output, strain urine?
Which medication for urinary retention may be used as "expulsion therapy" for renal calculi?
What is Tamsulosin (Flomax)?
What foods should the client avoid to manage Uric acid stones?
What is high purine foods?
(Organ meats, beef, lamb, mushrooms, spinach)
What word refers to the formation of stones in the kidney?
What is nephrolithiasis?
What size stone can be passed without any interventions?
What alleviates pain by decreasing bladder spasms that can result due to renal calculi?
What is oxybutynin?
The most common risk factor for stone formation.
What is Urinary Stasis?