Urinary Difficulty
Difficult or uncomfortable voiding
What is Dysuria?
Feces
What is stool?
The act of applying or inserting a hollow tube into urethra
What is catheterization?
The loss of small amounts of urine with intra-abdominal pressure
What is Stress Incontinence?
Blood in the stool
What is Melena?
Absence of urine or volume of 100ml or less in 24hrs
What is Anuria?
Rhythmic Contraction of intestinal smooth muscle that facilitate defecation
What is Peristalsis?
A urine drainage tube inserted but not left in place
What is a Straight Catheter?
Strong feeling that urine must be eliminated quickly
What is Urgency?
A visual inspection of interior colon using a flexible lighted endoscope
What is colonoscopy?
Client produces urine but does not release it from the bladder
What is Urinary Retention?
Urgent passage of watery stool and is accompanied by abdominal cramping
What is Diarrhea?
Flushing the lumen of a catheter
What is Catheter irrigation?
Spontaneous loss of urine when the bladder is stretched with urine but without prior perception of a need to void
What is Reflex Incontinence?
Occurs when large, hardened mass of stool interferes with defecation, making it impossible to pass feces voluntarily
What is fecal impaction?
Urine output is less than 400 mL in 24 hours
What is Oliguria?
An excessive accumulation of intestinal gas
What is Flatulence?
Hygiene measures used to keep the meatus and adjacent area of catheter clean
What is Catheter Care?
Urine leakage because the bladder is not completely emptied; bladder distended with retained urine
What is overflow incontinence?
Surgically created opening to the ileum
What is ileostomy?
Greater than-normal-urinary elimination
What is Polyuria?
Bowel elimination
What is defecation?
Urinary Tract Infection Caused by Catheter
What is CAUTI or Catheter-associated urinary tract infection?
To restore the control of urination involves teaching the client to refrain urinating until an appropriate time and place
What is Continence Training?
Visual endoscopic inspection limited to the sigmoid portion of the large intestine
What is sigmoidoscopy?