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PN106 GI and GU Exam Questions and
Answers |100% Pass
Physical Assessment for GU - Answer✔✔--VS: Hypertension occurs with kidney disease
-Lung Sounds: Crackles indicate fluid overload
-Edema: Indicates fluid overload
-Daily Weights
-I&O
-Skin: Yellow or gray cast; uremic frost
urinary tract infection (UTI) - Answer✔✔--Invasion of urinary tract by bacteria
-Urinary tract sterile beyond urethra
-Most common hospital-acquired infection (HAI)
-Mostly caused by E. Coli
UTI Risk Factors - Answer✔✔-• Urinary retention
• Contamination in Peri area (fecal, intercourse, vaginitis, prostatitis, genital piercings)
• Instrumentation
• Reflex from faulty valves
• Previous UTI
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• Female anatomy
• Aging changes
UTI common s/s - Answer✔✔-Urgency, frequency, burning, cloudy foul-smelling urine, hematuria, pelvic
pain
UTI s/s in older adults - Answer✔✔-fatigue, confusion, delirium
UTI complications - Answer✔✔-•Urosepsis: Sepsis caused by U T I
-Serious
-Common in older adult
UTI Nursing Data Collection - Answer✔✔--Predisposing factors
Catheter, recent urinary instrumentation, surgery
-s/s
-Voiding pattern
-Inspect urine for volume, color, concentration, cloudiness, blood, foul odor
-Review urinalysis and culture
UTI Nursing Process Nursing Care - Answer✔✔--Administer antimicrobials as ordered
-Provide pain control: heat, urinary analgesics
-Monitor symptoms
-Monitor I&O
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UTI Nursing Process Teaching - Answer✔✔--Medications: Take all antimicrobial medications
-Increase fluids
-UTI s/s: recognize and report
-Prevention: Interventions
Kidney injury concerns - Answer✔✔--Loss of kidney function
-Azotemia (High levels of urea and other nitrogen compounds in the blood)
-Oliguric (decreased to no urine output)
-High levels of K+ in blood
Process of urine formation - Answer✔✔-Urine made in kidneys, goes through ureters to bladder, stores
in bladder, excreted through urethra
Effects of aging of GU - Answer✔✔-• Bladder
-Decrease bladder size and tone of detrusor muscle
• Kidneys
-Decreased ability to concentrate urine
-Glomerular filtration rate decreases
-Nephrons decrease
• Males
-Prostate enlarges
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