NCLEX 3000-Urinary

A client with a urinary tract infection is prescribed co-trimoxazole (trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole). The nurse should provide which medication instruction?

"Drink at least eight 8-oz glasses of fluid daily."

A client with renal dysfunction of acute onset comes to the emergency department complaining of fatigue, oliguria, and coffee-colored urine. When obtaining the client's history to check for significant findings, the nurse should ask about:

recent streptococcal infection.

A client undergoes extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. Before discharge, the nurse should provide which instruction?

"Increase your fluid intake to 2 to 3 L per day."

The nurse is completing an intake and output record for a client who is receiving continuous bladder irrigation after transurethral resection of the prostate. How many milliliters of urine should the nurse record as output for her shift if the client received 1,800 ml of normal saline irrigating solution and the output in the urine drainage bag is 2,400 ml?

600

Which of the following is an appropriate nursing diagnosis for a client with renal calculi?

Risk for infection

A client comes to the emergency department complaining of severe pain in the right flank, nausea, and vomiting. The physician tentatively diagnoses right ureterolithiasis (renal calculi). When planning this client's care, the nurse should assign highest priority to which nursing diagnosis?

Acute pain

The nurse is planning a group teaching session on the topic of urinary tract infection (UTI) prevention. Which point would the nurse want to include?

Notify the physician if urinary urgency, burning, frequency, or difficulty occurs.

After having a transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), a client returns to the unit with a three-way indwelling urinary catheter and continuous closed bladder irrigation. Which finding suggests that the client's catheter is occluded?

The client reports bladder spasms and the urge to void.

(SELECT ALL THAT APPLY) The nurse is collecting data on a client who has a urinary tract infection (UTI). Which statements should the nurse expect the client to make?

(2) "I need to urinate frequently.", (3) "It burns when I urinate.", (5) "I need to urinate urgently."

The client underwent a transurethral resection of the prostate gland 24 hours ago and has a continuous bladder irrigation. Which of the following nursing interventions is appropriate?

Use aseptic technique when irrigating the catheter.