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Chapter 46: Bowel Elimination Flashcards

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This helps patient defecate normally especially those who have no neuromuscular control. What is this defined as?

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Bowel Training

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Drugs that promote bowel evacuation. What is this defined as?

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Cathartics

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Surgical opening created in the colon with the ends of the intestinal wall brought through the abdominal wall to create a stoma. What is this defined as?

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Colostomy

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Difficulty in passing stool or an infrequent passage of hard stool. What is this defined as?

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Constipation

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In this disease process symptoms range from mild diarrhea to severe colitis. What is this defined as?

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Clostridium Difficile (C. Diff)

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Increase in the number of stools and the passage of liquid, unformed feces. What is this defined as?

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Diarrhea

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Outflowing of water, gas, or stool discharged from the stoma. What is this defined as?

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Effluent

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Testing that requires visualization of the GI tract. What is this defined as?

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Endoscopy

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Procedure involving introduction of a solution into the rectum for cleansing or therapeutic purposes. What is this defined as?

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Enema

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Measures microscopic amounts of blood in feces. What is this defined as?

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Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT)

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Having excessive stomach or intestinal gas. What is this defined as?

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Flatulence

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Permanent dilation and engorgement of veins within the lining of the rectum. What is this defined as?

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Hemorrhoids

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Opening in your belly wall that is made during surgery. What is this defined as?

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Ileostomy

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Collection of hardened feces wedged in the rectum that a person cannot expel. What is this defined as?

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Impaction

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Inability to control passage of feces and gas from the anus. What is this defined as?

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Incontinence

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Drugs that act to promote bowel evacuation. What is this defined as?

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Laxatives

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Surgery that involves direct manipulation of the bowel temporarily stops peristalsis. What is this defined as?

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Paralytic ileus

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Abnormal growths rising from the lining of the large intestine (colon or rectum) and protruding into the intestinal canal (Lumen). What is this defined as?

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Polyps

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Artificially created opening between a body cavity and the surface of the body. What is this defined as?

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Stoma

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Helps assist with stool passage. Forced expiratory effort against a closed airway. What is this defined as?

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Valsalva maneuver

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A nurse specially educated to care for ostomy patients; This person collaborates with nurses to be sure the patient uses the correct pouching system, especially when the patient is ill or experiencing health changes or problems with the ostomy. What is this defined as?

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Wound ostomy continence nurse (WOCN)

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