URINARY ELIMINATION
The minimum adult urine output needed to support renal function.
What is 30 mL per hour?
The major function of the large intestine.
What is water absorption and stool formation?
The first step of the Nursing Process.
What is Assessment?
This nursing behavior involves recognizing and respecting a patient's beliefs, values, and traditions.
What is cultural sensitivity?
This urinary elimination device is commonly used to measure output accurately in critically ill patients.
What is an indwelling urinary catheter (Foley catheter)?
Leakage of urine when coughing, sneezing, or laughing.
What is stress incontinence?
A common side effect of opioid medications.
What is constipation?
The acronym ADPIE stands for this step after assessment.
What is Diagnosis?
Rather than relying on a family member, the nurse should use this person when a language barrier exists.
What is a professional medical interpreter?
This documentation abbreviation means "nothing by mouth."
What is NPO?
This type of incontinence occurs when a patient cannot reach the bathroom because of mobility limitations or confusion.
What is functional incontinence?
Three nursing interventions that can help prevent constipation.
What are increasing fluids, increasing fiber, and increasing activity?
This step involves setting measurable patient outcomes/goals.
What is Planning?
True or False: All members of a cultural group share identical beliefs and practices.
What is False?
The nurse's best action when a patient refuses a treatment because of cultural beliefs.
What is explore the patient's concerns and respect the patient's decision while providing education?
A patient reports urgency, frequency, and burning during urination. This condition should be suspected.
What is a urinary tract infection (UTI)?
A type of ostomy created from the large intestine.
What is a colostomy?
During this step, the nurse determines whether patient goals have been met.
What is Evaluation?
A sense of confusion, disorientation, and anxiety that people feel when they are exposed to an unfamiliar culture, environment, or social system without adequate preparation.
Culture shock
The bowel sound frequency that would require immediate reporting: absent, active, or hypoactive.
What are absent bowel sounds?
Steps to clean and maintain an indwelling foley catheter.
Describe a bowel training program.
What is a behavioral plan that helps establish a predictable, routine schedule for bowel movements to manage chronic constipation or fecal incontinence. Steps include to set a consistent time of voiding, optimize diet and fluids, and use proper positioning.
A nurse identifies "Risk for Falls" after analyzing assessment data. This step of the Nursing Process has been completed.
What is Nursing Diagnosis?
The practice of a person, group, or dominant culture forcing their own values, beliefs, behaviors, and customs onto another culture or subculture, usually without consent and often assuming their own ways are superior
Cultural imposition
A postoperative patient has not had a bowel movement in 4 days, reports pain with urination, speaks limited English, and appears anxious. Name one priority nursing action addressing each of the following: