Question

1. As a nursing student, you are caring for a 43 years old female client with quadriplegia. Identify the appropriate nursing interventions that may be used to minimize the risk of urinary tract infections. Select all that apply.
a. Encourage adequate fluid intake
b. Emphasize the importance of emptying the bladder regularly.
c. While providing a bath to the client , wipe from the back to front in the peri area.
d. Inform the client that hemodialysis is three days a week.
e. Educate the client on signs/symptoms of urinary track infections.
2. A client is admitted with diagnosis of COPD . Upon assessing your client, your client stated that he has not had a bowel movement in 5 days and normally had a bowel movement every day. Identify possible causes of the constipation. Select all that apply.
a. Poor exercise
b. Sedentary lifestyle
c. Increase fluid intake
d. Possible Bowel Obstruction
e. Poor diet intake
3. A client that you are caring is undergoing a variety of diagnostic tests for a bowel dysfunction of unknown origin. Identify which diagnostic tests would be included? Select all that apply.
a. Stool specimen
b..Hemacult test
c. Barium enema
d. EEG Test
e. Stool culture
4. In short essay , describe how you would perform an abdominal assessment?

Answer 1

Answer: Encourage adequate fluid intake, Emphasize the importance of emptying the bladder regularly, Educate the client on signs/symptoms of urinary track infections.

( To reduce the risk of urinary infection it is necessary to drink plenty of water, should maintain proper hygiene and should not use public toilets frequently. )

Answer: Sedentary lifestyle, Possible Bowel Obstruction, Poor diet intake.

( Patient having COPD suffers from breathing problems so it is necessary for them to dopt healthy lifestyle, indulgence of physical activity etc.)

Answer: Stool specimen, Hemacult test, Stool culture

( For testing the bowel function test, it is necessary to take the stool sample to know any kind of infection. )

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