Exam 29: Promoting Urinary Elimination

A nurse instructing a patient about how to prevent recurrent cystitis would include: (Select all that apply.)

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

An adult patient has an order to have his urinary catheter irrigated with normal saline. The nurse plans to draw up how much solution into the sterile irrigation syringe?

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

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

A nurse is cleansing the perineal area of a female patient who is having a urinary catheter inserted. The nurse should use the last povidone-iodine-soaked cotton ball to cleanse downward over the:

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

When the patient who has an order to be out of bed complains of feeling too weak to walk to the bathroom, the nurse assists the patient with urination elimination by:

A patient with a history of cystitis had surgery 24 hours ago and is now unable to void. A bladder scan indicates that he has approximately 400 mL of retained urine. The nurse anticipates that the least invasive intervention the physician will order would be:

To help reduce a patient's risk of recurrent cystitis, the nurse teaches the patient 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:

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 _____ minutes.

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:

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

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

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

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