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.
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A nurse teaches a young female client who is prescribed amoxicillin (Amoxil) for a urinary tract infection. Which statement should the nurse include in this client's teaching?
- A. Use a second form of birth control while on this medication.
- B. You will experience increased menstrual bleeding while on this drug.
- C. You will experience increased menstrual bleeding while on this drug.
- D. Watch for blood in your urine while taking this medication.
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The client should use a second form of birth control because penicillin seems to reduce the effectiveness of estrogen-containing contraceptives. She should not experience increased menstrual bleeding or blood in her urine while taking this drug.
A nurse plans care for clients with urinary incontinence. Which client is correctly paired with the appropriate intervention?
- A. A 24-year-old female post vaginal delivery: Habit training
- B. A 58-year-old postmenopausal client who is not taking estrogen therapy: Electrical stimulation
- C. A 64-year-old female with Alzheimer's-type senile dementia: Bladder training
- D. A 7-year-old female who has difficulty ambulating: Exercise therapy
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Exercise therapy and electrical stimulation are used for clients with stress incontinence related to childbirth or low levels of estrogen after menopause. Exercise therapy increases pelvic wall strength; it does not improve ambulation. Habit training is the type of bladder training that will be most effective for cognitively impaired clients.
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 cares for clients with urinary incontinence. Which types of incontinence are correctly paired with their clinical manifestation?
- A. Stress incontinence: Urine loss with physical exertion
- B. Urge incontinence: Large amount of urine with each occurrence
- C. Functional incontinence: Urine loss results from abnormal detrusor contractions
- D. Overflow incontinence: Constant dribbling of urine
Correct Answer: A,B,D
Rationale: Stress incontinence is a loss of urine with physical exertion, coughing, sneezing, or exercising. Urge incontinence presents with an abrupt and strong urge to void and usually has a large amount of urine released with each occurrence. Overflow incontinence occurs with bladder distention and results in a constant dribbling of urine.
A nurse assesses clients on the medical-surgical unit. Which client is at greatest risk for the development of bacterial cystitis?
- A. A 36-year-old female who has never been pregnant
- B. A 42-year-old male who is prescribed cephalophamide
- C. A 34-year-old female who is not using estrogen replacement
- D. A 77-year-old male with mild congestive heart failure
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Females at any age are more susceptible to cystitis than men because of the shorter urethra in women. Postmenopausal women who are not on hormone replacement therapy are at increased risk for bacterial cystitis because of changes in the cells of the urethra and vagina. The middle-aged woman who has never been pregnant would not have a risk potential as high as the older woman who is not using hormone replacement therapy.
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