Week 2 Chapter 30

Question 1

What are the 10-12 inch muscular tubes that carry urine to the bladder called?

Answer 1

Ureters

Question 2

Which urinary system structure takes urine away from the bladder

Answer 2

Urethra

Question 3

Which of the following describes actual renal failure

Answer 3

Can result from poisons and / or alcohol abuse

Question 4

Carol recently had surgery to repair a urinary sphincter. Since then, she has had trouble with urinary incontinence. The physician has assured her that this will be a temporary condition, but she wants to know what she can do to help alleviate this problem. Which of the following is your best reply?

Answer 4

“You can do Kegan exercises to increase your control of the urinary sphincters”

Question 5

You would anticipate that a patient who has had__ many develop cystitis

Answer 5

An indwelling urinary catheter

Question 6

Which of these urinary diseases is likely to be treated with corticosteroids?

Answer 6

Glomerulonephritis

Question 7

Which of the following does, not describe acute kidney failure?

Answer 7

Commonly caused by high blood pressure or diabetes

Question 8

An immune disorder is a possible cause for which disease?

Answer 8

Glomerulonephritis

Question 9

Renal calculi could result from__

Answer 9

Dehydration

Question 10

Which of the following does not describe chronic renal failure?

Answer 10

Can result from poisons and or alcohol abuse

Question 11

Donna came to the office today complaining of back pain, fever, Nausea, and blood in her urine. She has a recent history of bladder infection. The physician diagnosis pyelonephritis. Which of the following would you expect the physician to prescribe?

Answer 11

Pain medication and antibiotics

Question 12

Yolanda had been diagnosed several times in the last year with cystitis. She asks the practioner. If there is anything she can do to prevent future episodes of cystitis. What is the best response to her question?

Answer 12

“Always clean the perineal area from front to back”

Question 13

When a female patient develops cystitis, the most likely cause is from__

Answer 13

Fecal contamination

Question 14

Which of the following describes chronic renal failure?

Answer 14

Commonly caused by high blood pressure or diabetes

Question 15

The detrusor muscle is part of the__

Answer 15

Bladder

Question 16

When taking a urine sample from a patient for testing, you notice it is cloudy. This could indicate __

Answer 16

Cystitis

Question 17

The __uses a peristaltic action to take urine to the bladder.

Answer 17

Ureters

Question 18

How does pyelonephritis begin?

Answer 18

With a bladder infection

Question 19

You are working at an urgent care clinic when a patient is brought in by several of his friends. He is conscious but seems very confused. At first, th3 friends say they’re worried because he had too much to drink, but then they admit that he was using drugs also. The patients hands are shaking, and when he wipes his nose with a tissue, you can see blood on the tissue. Which of the following conditions would the physician likely be most concerned about?

Answer 19

Acute renal failure