Question

A community health nurse is teaching a group of clients about Kegel exercises to prevent urinary incontinence. Which of the following instructions should the nurse include?

Answer 1

Urinary incontinence is a major common problem , especially among middle age and older women.studies indicate that at least 35%of community dwelling women over the age of 65 are incontinent,and these numbers are expected to increase as that baby Boomer generation ages.

Nurses are in strategic position to change this state of affairs yhrough the implementation of simple strategies that focus on continence promotion,casefinding, implementation,of primary care strategies for patients with uncomplicated incontinence,and teferalls for patients with neorologic deficits or structural defects .

You might benefit from doing legal exercise if you:

Leak a few drops of urine while sneezing,laughing or coughing.

Have a strong, sudden urge to urinate just before losing a large amount of urine.

Leak stool.

Legal exercise can also be done during pregnancy or after childbirth to try to improve your symptoms.