Exam 30: Promoting Bowel Elimination

A patient scheduled for bowel surgery has an order to receive enemas until clear. The nurse is aware that no more than three enemas should be given because:

The nurse should plan interventions to combat constipation in a patient:

The nurse caring for a patient with lactose intolerance would anticipate the need to offer interventions for:

The patient with the new colostomy is concerned about how to control diarrhea of the effluent. The nurse suggests that diarrhea can be controlled by the intake of:

The nurse has assessed that a patient's stool has changed from brown to dark black and sticky. The nurse suspects:

The nurse assesses a pale, light gray stool and recognizes that the cause of this abnormal color is due to an obstruction in the _________ duct.

A nurse is reinforcing education with a patient who will begin a bowel training program. An intervention this program does not include is:

A nurse is digitally removing a fecal impaction from a patient. The nurse should stop the procedure immediately and take corrective action if the patient's:

The patient asks the nurse how an ileostomy differs from a colostomy. The most informative response by the nurse would be that:

The nurse reminds the patient that digestion of food is a complex process with much of the food breaking down in intestines. The small intestine functions to:

There is an order to administer a cleansing enema to an adult patient before bowel surgery. The nurse will fill the enema bag with how many milliliters of fluid for this procedure?

A patient who has started antibiotic therapy is having diarrhea as a side effect of the medication. The nurse should encourage the patient to eat:

A nurse is assisting a patient with a new continent ileostomy to catheterize the internal reservoir to drain the ileostomy. When the catheter meets resistance from the internal valve, the nurse should: