ATI: Urinary Catheter Care

Question 1

Anuria

Answer 1

absence of urinary production or excretion

Question 2

Autonomic Dysreflexia

Answer 2

a condition of exaggerated reflexes typically occurring as a result of spinal cord injury

Question 3

Balloon

Answer 3

a compartment of a device such as a urinary catheter that, when positioned inside a cavity or hollow organ such as the bladder and then inflated, prevents accidental dislodgement of the catheter from that organ

Question 4

Bladder

Answer 4

a membranous muscular sac, as in urinary bladder, the sac that stores urine prior to excretion

Question 5

Bladder Spasms

Answer 5

contractions, possibly painful, of the musculature of the urinary bladder

Question 6

Catheter

Answer 6

a flexible tube passed into the body to remove or instill fluids or to keep a passageway open

Question 7

Coude Catheter

Answer 7

a type of curved-tip urinary catheter used for intermittent removal of urine from the bladder

Question 8

Dialysis

Answer 8

a technique by which fluids and molecules pass through a semi-permeable membrane via osmosis, most often referring to the removal of waste products from the blood of a patient with renal failure

Question 9

Distention

Answer 9

the state of being stretched out or enlarged

Question 10

Diuresis

Answer 10

excessive production or excretion of urine

Question 11

Dribbling

Answer 11

involuntary leakage of small amounts, as of urine from the urethra

Question 12

Foley Catheter

Answer 12

a common type of indwelling urinary catheter

Question 13

French

Answer 13

a measurement unit of the French scale, a system indicating the size of the outer diameter of a catheter or other tube or device, with each unit of the scale approximately equivalent to one third of a millimeter

Question 14

Hematuria

Answer 14

blood in the urine

Question 15

Hesitancy

Answer 15

difficulty starting urination

Question 16

Incontinence

Answer 16

involuntary release of urine from the bladder or feces via the anus

Question 17

Kidney

Answer 17

one of two bean-shaped organs located below the rib cage on either side of the spine that function to produce urine

Question 18

Meatus

Answer 18

an opening, passage, or channel, as in urinary meatus

Question 19

Medical ASepsis

Answer 19

infection-control practices aimed at reducing the number of organisms present and transmissible from a source; also called clean technique

Question 20

Micturition

Answer 20

urination, the voluntary releasing of urine from the bladder

Question 21

Nephron

Answer 21

the functional unit of the kidney

Question 22

Nocturia

Answer 22

excessive or frequent urination at night or during the usual sleeping hours

Question 23

Oliguria

Answer 23

scant urinary production or excretion; diminished urinary output compared with fluid intake

Question 24

Patent

Answer 24

open or unobstructed

Question 25

pH

Answer 25

a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a substance, with a low pH indicating acidity and a high pH indicating alkalinity; a measure of the concentration of hydrogen ions

Question 26

Polyuria

Answer 26

excretion of abnormally large amounts of urine

Question 27

Proteinuria

Answer 27

presence of protein (such as albumin) in the urine

Question 28

REsidual

Answer 28

amount remaining or left behind, as in residual urine

Question 29

REtention

Answer 29

accumulation within the body of something that is usually expelled, as in urinary retention

Question 30

Sediment

Answer 30

material that settles to the bottom of a liquid

Question 31

Specific Gravity

Answer 31

the weight or degree of concentration of a substance compared with that of an equal volume of another substance, most often, urine compared with distilled water

Question 32

Suprapubic

Answer 32

above the symphysis pubis or pubic arch, as in a urinary catheter inserted through the abdominal wall above the symphysis pubis into the bladder

Question 33

Surgical Asepsis

Answer 33

techniques used to destroy all pathogenic organisms, also called sterile technique

Question 34

Ureter

Answer 34

a narrow tubular duct that transports urine from the kidney to the bladder

Question 35

Urethra

Answer 35

a narrow tube through which urine passes from the bladder to the outside of the body

Question 36

Urinalysis

Answer 36

a diagnostic examination of urine

Question 37

Urinary Frequency

Answer 37

the need to urinate repeatedly and more often than usual

Question 38

Urine

Answer 38

liquid waste material produced by the kidneys and excreted through the bladder

Question 39

Void

Answer 39

urinate, release urine from the bladder voluntarily