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Vocabulary
Common Urinary Elimination Problems
Urinary Incontinence
Infection Control
Catheters
100

Occurs when the brain gives the bladder permission to empty, the bladder contracts, the urinary sphincter relaxes, and urine leaves the body through the urethra.

What is Micturition

100
The inability to partially or completely empty the bladder.
What is urinary retention?
100
Incontinence caused by medical conditions that are in many cases treatable and reversible.
What is transient incontinence?
100

The proper positioning of the catheter bag.

What is below the bladder?

100
The placement of a tube through the urethra into the bladder to drain urine.
What is a catheter?
200
Blood in the urine.
What is hematuria?
200
One of the most common healthcare acquired problems.

What is a urinary tract infection?

200
Incontinence as a direct result of caregivers not responding in a timely manner to requests for help with toileting.
What is functional incontinence?
200
A place that a catheter bag should never ever touch.
What is the floor?
200

A urinary drainage tube inserted surgically into the bladder through the abdominal wall above the symphysis pubis.

What is a suprapubic catheter?

300
A serious upper urinary tract infection.
What is pyelonephritis?
300
A common problem affecting 27% of men and 43% of women over the age of 40.
What is urinary incontinence?
300
Incontinence caused by an overdistended bladder, often related to bladder outlet obstruction.
What is overflow urinary incontinence or urinary incontinence associated with chronic retention of urine?
300
A key intervention proven to decrease the incidence and prevalence of hospital-acquired UTIs.
What is prompt removal of an indwelling catheter after it is no longer needed?
300
The type of catheterization requiring the use of a single lumen catheter.
What is intermittent or straight catheterization?
400
A permanent incontinent urinary diversion created by transplanting the ureters into a closed-off part of the intestinal ileum and bringing the other end out onto the abdominal wall forming a stoma.
What is a ureterostomy?
400

A continent urinary reservoir and an orthotopic neobladder.

What are the two types of continent urinary diversions?

400
Involuntary leakage of small volumes of urine associated with increased intraabdominal pressure related to either urethral hypermobility or an incompetent urinary sphincter.
What is stress urinary incontinence?
400
The minimum frequency at which patients with an indwelling catheter should receive catheter care.
What is every 8 hours?
400
The scale used to identify the size or diameter of the urinary catheter.
What is the French scale?
500
Small tubes that are tunneled through the skin into the renal pelvis to drain the urine when the ureter is obstructed.
What are nephrostomy tubes?
500
The percentage of elderly nursing home residents that have urinary incontinence.
What is 70%?
500
Incontinence due to an overactive bladder.
What is urgency urinary incontinence?
500

Painful for a patient, increases the risk for UTI, and can cause backward flow of urine up the ureters, increasing the risk for kidney damage.

What is excessive accumulation of urine in the bladder?

500
The type of catheter tip used for a patient with an enlarged prostate.
What is a coude-tip or "red robin"?