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Urinary retention is:
A condition where your bladder doesn’t empty all the way or at all when you urinate.
The patient is an 86-year-old male who is incontinent at night. An appropriate alternative to catheterisation for this patient would be:
Place a uridome
The mechanism of action of the oral laxative docusate sodium (coloxyl) is:
Helps the stool absorb more water making it easier to pass
The nurse begins to suspect fecal impaction in a patient who has not passed a stool in 10 days when the patient
- Abdo pain
- liquid stool - overflow
- malaise
- persistent urge
- bleeding
- absent bowel sounds in LLQ
- distended lower ab
- tenderness on palpation
- dull sound on percussion
An elderly patient states that she is worried because she has not had a bowel movement each day. The nurse’s best response concerning defecation patterns for elderly people would be:
Enemas, suppositories, laxatives
Ascites is defined as:
A condition in which fluid collects in spaces within your abdomen. Cause swelling, vomiting, etc.
What is a normal finding on palpation of the abdomen?
No tenderness and masses
When inspecting a client’s abdominal contour, the nurse observes the abdomen to be sunken with the lower edges of the ribs visible. The nurse describes and documents this as:
scaphoid
A nurse asks a patient to turn their palm down with the elbows straight. The specific joint movement the nurse is testing for is:
pronation of elbow
A client who presents in the medical center with lower limb pain following a motor vehicle accident requires a musculoskeletal assessment. When completing the assessment, the nurse should apply all of the following principles except:
Wouldnt ask the client to move their joint quickly, whilst applying pressure.
