Running, walking, or moving around helps to facilitate regular bowel movements. This is also known as _____.
What is exercise?
100
The normal ____ of urine should be "straw, amber and transparent"
What is colour?
100
This age related change affects the ability of a person to contract and release their bowels and can sometimes lead to incontinence.
What is muscle toning?
200
Passage of small, dry, hard stool or passage of no stool for an abnormally long time.
What is constipation?
200
This is very important to teach a client in order to facilitate urinary/fecal elimination, and too much of this before bed can increase the amount of times one has to get up in the middle of the night to void.
What is proper hydration/fluids?
200
This should not be present in urine; its bright red colour in urine is abnormal.
What is blood?
200
Biggest problem with older adults that can be avoided by increasing activity and fluid intake.
What is constipation?
300
Affects blood flow to the kidneys, and interferes with production of urine.
What is heart failure?
300
The nurse is responsible for collecting this in order to assess a client's urine.
What is a urine specimen?
300
A normal indication of this characteristic of urine should range between 4.5-8.
What is pH?
300
Older adults do not secrete as much of this as younger persons in their large intestine.