Mononucleosis
This is the causative agent for Mononucleosis.
Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)
What is required by the nurse to help assist with determining the cause of encopresis?
Thorough assessment of patient's history.
What do clinical manifestations of enuresis include?
Urgency, nocturnal bedwetting, discomfort, restlessness
Patients suffering from anorexia typically present with what findings when assessing their weight?
Refusal to maintain body weight at or above minimally normal weight for age (less than 85% of expected).
What medications are commonly abused by someone suffering with bulimia?
Laxatives and diuretics
The acute care nurse would implement what transmission based precautions for the pediatric patient admitted for Mononucleosis?
Contact precautions
What do clinical manifestations of encopresis include?
Constipation, abdominal pain, posturing, avoidance of social situations, affected school performance and/or attendance, poor appetite, withdrawn behavior, leakage of stool.
What do organic causes of enuresis include?
Structural defects, UTI's, endocrine disorders, sickle cell disease.
The nurse often finds their patient obsessively looking in the mirror, walking laps around their room, and exercising. What nursing diagnosis would be appropriate for this patient?
Disturbed body image
What would the nurse expect to find when assessing the weight of a patient admitted due to complications from bulimia?
Weight may be normal or slightly above normal.
Name the priority nursing assessment for a patient admitted with "kissing tonsils".
Airway assessment
A child is diagnosed with encopresis due to constipation and stool impaction from voluntary retention of stool. The are admitted to the acute care pediatric unit. What nursing interventions would the nurse anticipate would be ordered to treat this?
Medication regimen such as laxatives, dietary intervention, toileting regimen
What should education for parents on how to combat nighttime bedwetting include?
Fluid restriction in the evenings, waking child to void at night, bed wetting alarms.
The nurse just obtained vital signs on a 13 year old patient with anorexia. Which finding is the most concering to the nurse- Apical HR 110, Manual BP 90/60, Oral Temp 96F, RR 22.
Temp 96F
What are common reasons for a person suffering with bulimia to be admitted to the hospital?
Electrolyte imbalance, cardiac monitoring, behavioral managment and access to psychotherapeutic resources.