Exam 29: Promoting Urinary Elimination

A male patient who suffered a spinal cord injury is learning to perform self-urinary catheterization before being discharged to home. The statement made by the patient that indicates more instruction is needed is:

A patient has just had a urinary drainage catheter removed. The nurse plans to measure intake and output for this patient for another:

A nurse irrigating a patient's indwelling urinary catheter should instill normal saline as ordered, and then:

An older adult male patient needs to have a condom catheter applied. An appropriate technique is to:

The nurse is admitting a patient with suspected urolithiasis. An appropriate nursing intervention in the care of such a patient would be to:

An adult male patient who cannot void has an order to have a urinary catheter inserted. Which size catheter would be most appropriate to use?

The nurse should provide enough hydration for the patient so that the patient can void at least every _______ hours.

To prevent changes in the chemical characteristics of urine, a nurse sends a sample of fresh urine to the laboratory for urinalysis within at least:

When attempting to catheterize a male patient, there is resistance to catheter insertion. The nurse's initial intervention should be to:

A nurse is caring for a patient with prostate enlargement who has an indwelling catheter. As the nurse is attaching a portion of the catheter to the patient's abdomen, the patient asks why this is being done. The correct response is:

The nurse caring for a severely dehydrated patient who has a Foley catheter in place assesses the patient to confirm adequate urine perfusion by the urine output of:

A nurse instructing a female patient on obtaining a clean catch urine specimen should stress:

A nurse is reinforcing instructions about Kegel exercises with a female patient. An appropriate instruction is to:

A nurse is documenting the removal of a urinary drainage catheter from an assigned patient. If the catheter is removed at 9:00 AM, the nurse recognizes that the patient is due to void by:

The nurse is aware that in the older adult, a urinary infection may cause the patient to:

A patient who underwent prostate surgery is admitted to the surgical unit with a catheter that is used to provide continuous irrigation. The nurse recognizes this catheter is a(n):

A patient's urinalysis results are available. Which of the following are considered normal characteristics? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse can assist a patient who needs to void but cannot begin the urinary stream by:

A patient has been ordered to have a 24-hour urine collection as part of a diagnostic workup. The action taken to perform this procedure correctly is to:

Nurses in a long-term care facility are developing a prevention program to eliminate catheter acquired infections (CAUTI). The rationale for this program includes which of the following?