Signs and symptoms
A nurse is caring for a client who has the following symptoms: vascular spiders, splenomegaly, ascites, jaundice, spontaneous bruising, and epistaxis.
What is cirrhosis?
A nurse will educate a client with this disorder to lose weight, be in an upright position after eating, avoid foods 2-3 hours before bed, and to not drink any coffee or OJ.
What is GERD?
This medication detoxifies ammonia from the body and draws water to the bowel causing diarrhea.
What is lactulose?
This is a medication for cirrhosis.
Toxic Megacolon
What is Ulcerative colitis?
This disorder is caused by decreased fiber, decreased fluid intake, ignoring the urge to go to the bathroom, chronic laxative or narcotic use.
What is constipation?
This disorder has patches of inflammation that has a cobblestone appearance that can appear anywhere in the GI tract with abdominal pain, distension, and tenderness on right side. They will also have steatorrhea.
What is Crohn's Disease?
This is what you would educate a client with constipation to do.
What is take probiotics, increase fiber, exercise daily, and drink hot liquids?
A nurse would educate a client prescribed this medication to take it an hour before breakfast and dinner on an empty stomach.
What is sucralfate?
Medication to treat PUD
Hemorrhage, peritonitis, and acute respiratory syndrome
What is acute pancreatitis?
This disorder major cause is chronic irritation that is strongly related to alcohol and cigarette smoking.
What is esophageal cancer?
Patient has rigid board like abdomen, inability to pass stool/gas, pain with movement and breathing.
What is Peritonitis?
This disorder if they have no symptoms there will be no treatment. But if they do have symptoms they will need to increase their fiber to 25-35 g/day, avoid laxatives, and drink 8-10 glasses of water a day.
What is diverticulitis?
Side effects of this medication are yellow/orange skin and urine and photosensitivity. A client can't take this medication if they have a sulfa allergy.
What is sulfasalazine?
Peritonitis
What is diverticulitis/diverticulosis?
Name the causes for Hepatitis A.
What are contaminated food (shellfish) and water, and sexual activity?
Client comes in stating they are having foul breath (halitosis), difficulty swallowing, belching, regurgitation, and coughing.
What is esophageal diverticulum?
What is fluid balance?
This is for the disorder diarrhea.
This medication is used to treat chemo induced nausea, post-op vomiting, and hyperemesis in pregnancy.
What is ondansetron?
Dumping syndrome
What is peptic ulcer disease?
A client comes in and states that they have been an alcoholic for over 30 years.
What is alcoholic cirrhosis or Laennec's?
Substernal/epigastric pressure after eating and when lying down the symptoms may increase when the patient bends down.
What is a hiatal hernia?
Client has frequent bowel movements and they will report extreme pain, and site of physical blood in the feces to their provider. You will instruct them to decrease their fiber and increase their protein and fluids.
What is Ulcerative Colitis?
A nurse would administer this medication after a barium swallow and why would it be administer.
What is a laxative and because retaining barium can cause a bowel obstruction?
Name the 4 main complications of cirrhosis.
What are portal hypertension, ascites, esophageal varices, and hepatic encephalopathy?
A client comes in with nausea and vomiting. Their lab results show they have H. Pylori.
What is chronic gastritis?