PrepU Chapter 28
A client undergoes surgery to remove a malignant tumor followed by a urinary diversion procedure. Which postoperative procedure is the most important for the nurse to perform?
maintain skin and stomal integrity
In assessing the appropriateness of removing a suprapubic catheter, the nurse recognizes that the client's residual urine must be less than which amount?
100 mL
A patient is diagnosed with a complicated UTI. Which of the following drugs will the patient most likely begin initial pharmacologic therapy?
Cephalosporin
A client comes to the emergency department complaining of sudden onset of sharp, severe pain in the lumbar region that radiates around the side and toward the bladder. The client also reports nausea and vomiting and appears pale, diaphoretic, and anxious. The physician tentatively diagnoses renal calculi and orders flat-plate abdominal X-rays. Renal calculi can form anywhere in the urinary tract. What is their most common formation site?
Kidney
A patient who has been treated for uric acid stones is being discharged from the hospital. What type of diet does the nurse discuss with the patient?
Low purine diet
A 64-year-old man is seeing his urologist for an annual check-up, post prostatectomy. The health care provider is concerned with the symptom he finds because it is considered diagnostic for bladder cancer. Which of the following signs/symptoms is diagnostic for bladder cancer?
Painless, gross hematuria
A patient with a UTI is having burning and pain when urinating. What urinary analgesic is prescribed for relief of these symptoms?
Pyridium
The nurse planning care for a client with overflow and stress incontinence includes preparation for which intervention?
Transrectal resection
Which term refers to inflammation of the renal pelvis?
pyelonephritis
Urolithiasis
stones in the urinary tract. Prevent through increasing fluid intake.
The nurse knows that which of the following body parts explains why cystitis is more common in women?
women a shorter URETHRA
