Exam 2 (elimination)

Question 1

• when the brain gives the bladder permission to empty, he bladder contracts, and urinary sphincter relaxes, and urine leaves the body.

Answer 1

Micturition

Question 2

• blood in the urine

Answer 2

Hematuria

Question 3

• an enzyme secreted by and stored in the kidneys which promotes the production of the protein angiotensin.

Answer 3

Renin

Question 4

• inability to partially or completely empty the bladder.

Answer 4

Urinary retention

Question 5

• amount of urine left in the bladder after voiding (aka peeing)

Answer 5

Post Void residual (PVR)

Question 6

• bacteria in the urine. Does not always mean there is a UTI.

Answer 6

Bacteriuria

Question 7

• a serious upper UTI.

Answer 7

Pyelonephritis

Question 8

• life-threatening bloodstream infection.

Answer 8

Bacteremia

Question 9

• burning or pain with urination.

Answer 9

Dysuria

Question 10

• irritation of the bladder.

Answer 10

Cystitis

Question 11

• (CAUTI’s) UTI associated with a catheter.

Answer 11

Catheter associated UTI

Question 12

• the “complaint of any involuntary loss of urine”

Answer 12

Urinary Incontinence

Question 13

• 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.

Answer 13

Ureterostomy

Question 14

• small tubes that are tunneled through the skin into the renal pelvis.

Answer 14

Nephrostomy Tubes

Question 15

• placement of the tube through the urethra into the bladder to drain urine.

Answer 15

Catheterization

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Suprapubic catheter

Question 17

• bladder retraining, and a variety of toileting schedules.

Answer 17

Pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT)

Question 18

• contraction that propels food through length of the GI tract.

Answer 18

Peristalsis

Question 19

• distended veins that come from pressure during straining.

Answer 19

Hemorrhoid

Question 20

• any surgery that involves direct manipulation of the bowel temporarily stops paralysis

Answer 20

Ileus

Question 21

• when a patient has unrelieved constipation and is unable to expel the hardened feces retained in the rectum.

Answer 21

Impaction

Question 22

• Required bowel preparation to insure that bowel is clear.

Answer 22

Enemas

Question 23

• controls diarrhea. Example ( laxatives)

Answer 23

Cathartics

Question 24

• inability to control passage of feces and gas from the anus.

Answer 24

Fecal Incontinence

Question 25

• a common causative of diarrhea.

Answer 25

Clostridium difficile

Question 26

• temporary or permanent opening in the bowel.

Answer 26

Stoma

Question 27

• surgical openings created to bring part of the intestine through the abdominal wall.

Answer 27

Ileostomy or colostomy

Question 28

• fecal stream

Answer 28

Effluent

Question 29

• nurse specially educated to care for ostomy patients.

Answer 29

Wound, ostomy and continence nurse (WOCN)