Terminology
Awakening to void one or more times at night.
What is Nocturia?
The average adult should consume this many glasses of water in a day.
What is at least eight 8oz glasses?
A condition which men suffer from that makes them prone to urinary retention and incontinence.
What is Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia?
In the planning phase of the nursing process, this nursing intervention is often prioritized for a patient experiencing altered urinary elimination due to an overdistended bladder.
What is catheterization?
The greatest danger from diarrhea is the development of....
What is Fluid and Electrolyte Imbalance?
A urinary condition is associated with the involuntary loss of urine during physical activities such as coughing or sneezing.
What is stress incontinence?
This term describes the inability to completely empty the bladder, often requiring nursing interventions such as catheterization or bladder training.
What is urinary retention?
Nursing interventions for this include filtering urine, pain management and increasing fluid intake
What is renal calculi?
Lifestyle health promotion actions that patients should be encouraged to do or continue to maintain normal elimination patterns
What is Exercise, Adequate Fluid Intake, Adequate Dietary Intake?
Patients are at risk for this if they are constantly wet from urine or liquid stools
What is Skin Breakdown, Impaired Skin Integrity?
A urine output that is decreased despite normal fluid intake.
What is Oliguria?
The elimination process which is sterile
What is urinary elimination?
A condition that causes the digestive process and peristalsis to be accelerated, leading to diarrhea and gaseous distention
What is Stress?
List 4 actions the nurse can take to assist the patient in achieving their elimination goals?
What is Encourage Hydration, Monitor and Educate on Toileting Habits, Assist with Mobility, Implement bladder training or pelvic floor exercises?
List three common symptoms of urinary disturbances
What is Frequency, Urgency, Dysuria, Polyuria, Oliguria, Incontinence, and Difficulty starting the stream?
This common symptom of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH) involves difficulty starting and maintaining a steady stream of urine.
What is urinary hesitancy?
This type of nutrition is delivered via tube to the stomach or intestines.
What is enteral feeding?
One of the most common health-care associated infections
What is a Urinary Tract Infection
This surgical procedure creates an alternate route for urine to leave the body, bypassing the bladder.
What is a urinary diversion?
A key component of the nursing care plan, this intervention encourages patients to develop regular habits to improve bowel or urinary elimination.
What is establishing a toileting schedule?
The functional unit of the kidney which forms the urine.
What is the Nephron?
Symptoms include burning or painful urination and frequent urgency to urinate despite not having a lot of urine to pass. As well as flank pain, suprapubic pain, cloudy/foul smelling or blood-tinged urine.
What is urinary tract infection?
This diagnostic test measures the blood levels of electrolytes and organ byproducts that help the nurse recognize alterations in cellular function.
What is metabolic panel (BMP or CMP)?
This nursing diagnosis is given when a patient exhibits involuntary loss of urine
What is Urinary Incontinence?
This lab test measures kidney function by analyzing waste products such as creatinine and urea in the blood.
What are blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine?