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A nurse cares for adult clients who experience urge incontinence. For which client should the nurse plan a habit training program?
- A. A 60-year-old female who is confused
- B. A 65-year-old female who is confused
- C. A 65-year-old female who is confused
- D. A 62-year-old female with kidney failure
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: For a bladder training program to succeed in a client with urge incontinence, the client must be alert, aware, and able to resist the urge to urinate. Habit training will work best for a confused client. This includes going to the bathroom (or being assisted to the bathroom) at set times. The other clients may benefit from another type of bladder training.
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A nurse assesses a client for risk factors for bladder cancer. Which question should the nurse ask?
- A. Do you smoke cigarettes?
- B. Do you use recreational drugs?
- C. Do you consume alcohol regularly?
- D. Do you have a family history of bladder cancer?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Smoking is known to be a factor that greatly increases the risk of bladder cancer. Alcohol use, recreational drug use, and family history (except medications that contain phenacetin) are not known to significantly increase the risk of developing bladder cancer.
A nurse cares for a client with urinary incontinence. The client states, 'I am so embarrassed. My bladder leaks like a young child's bladder.' How should the nurse respond?
- A. I understand how you feel. I would be mortified.
- B. Incontinence pads will minimize leaks in public.
- C. I can teach you strategies to help control your incontinence.
- D. More women experience incontinence than you might think.
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The nurse should accept and acknowledge the client's concerns and assist the client to learn techniques that will help control urinary incontinence.
A nurse teaches a client who is starting urinary bladder training. Which statement should the nurse include in this client's teaching?
- A. Use the toilet when you first feel the urge, rather than at specific intervals.
- B. Try to consciously hold your urine until the scheduled toileting time.
- C. The client needs to determine whether the client is taking a 24 hours.
- D. The toileting interval can be increased once you have been continent for a week.
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: The client should try to hold the urine consciously until the next scheduled toileting time. Toileting should occur at specific intervals during the training. The toileting interval should be no less than every hour.
A nurse teaches a client with functional urinary incontinence. Which statement should the nurse include in this client's teaching?
- A. You must clean around your catheter daily with soap and water.
- B. You must clean around your catheter daily with soap and water.
- C. You must clean around your catheter daily with soap and water.
- D. Operations to repair your bladder are available, and you can consider these.
- E. Buy slacks with elastic waistbands that are easy to pull down.
Correct Answer: E
Rationale: Functional urinary incontinence occurs as the result of problems not related to the client's bladder, such as trouble accessing a toilet. One goal is that the client be able to manage his or her clothing independently. Elastic waistband slacks that are easy to pull down can help the client get on the toilet in time to void. The other instructions do not relate to functional urinary incontinence.
A nurse teaches a female client who has stress incontinence. Which statements should the nurse include in this client's teaching?
- A. When you start and stop your urine stream, you are using your pelvic muscles.
- B. Tighten your pelvic muscles for a slow count of 10 and then relax for a slow count of 10.
- C. Pelvic muscle exercises should only be performed sitting straight with your feet on the floor.
- D. After you have been using these exercises for a couple days, your control of urine will improve.
- E. Like any other muscle in your body, you can make your pelvic muscles stronger by contracting them.
Correct Answer: A,B,E
Rationale: The client should be taught that the muscles used to start and stop urination are pelvic muscles, and that pelvic muscles can be strengthened by contracting and relaxing them. The client should tighten pelvic muscles for a slow count of 10 and then relax the muscles for a slow count of 10 in various positions.