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NU-116 exam 5 Questions and Answers
Which kidney is lower? - Ans:✔✔-right because of the liver
which organ is the primary regulator of fluid and acid-base - Ans:✔✔-kidneys
How many nephrons per kidney? - Ans:✔✔-1 million
glomerulus - Ans:✔✔-filters fluid and solutes
How big are the ureters? - Ans:✔✔-10-12" length, 0.5" diameter
bladder capacity - Ans:✔✔-300-500/600mL Urine
Where is the female bladder located? - Ans:✔✔-lies behind symphysis pubis
Where is the male bladder located? - Ans:✔✔-in front of the rectum and above the prostate gland
what muscles allow the bladder to expand? - Ans:✔✔-detrusor muscles
Urethra - Ans:✔✔-passage for urine
Female urethra length - Ans:✔✔-1.5 inches
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female urethra function - Ans:✔✔-passage of urine only
Male urethra length - Ans:✔✔-8 inches
male urethra function - Ans:✔✔-passage of urine and semen
internal sphincter muscle - Ans:✔✔-involuntary urination
external sphincter muscle - Ans:✔✔-voluntary urination
micturition - Ans:✔✔-urination
amount of urine per hour - Ans:✔✔-50 mL
30 mL minimum
Specific gravity of urine - Ans:✔✔-1.005-1.025
How many times a day may infants void? - Ans:✔✔-up to 20 times
How many times a day may school age children void? - Ans:✔✔-6-8 times per day
may experience nocturnal enuresis/bed wetting
What factors may affect renal function - Ans:✔✔--developmental
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-psychosocial
-fluid and food intake
-medications
-muscle tone
polyuria - Ans:✔✔-excessive urination
diuresis - Ans:✔✔-excessive urination
oliguria - Ans:✔✔-Decreased urine output
anuria - Ans:✔✔-absence of urine
urinary tract infection - Ans:✔✔-infection of one or more organs of the urinary tract
dysuria - Ans:✔✔-painful urination
urinary hesitancy - Ans:✔✔-difficulty in starting a urinary stream
urinary retention - Ans:✔✔-inability to empty the bladder
nocturia - Ans:✔✔-urination at night
Symptoms of UTI - Ans:✔✔--Urinary urgency, frequency, dysuria
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clean catch specimen - Ans:✔✔-Clean area, pee little then collect urine (midstream)
indwelling catheter specimen - Ans:✔✔-obtain specimen from port of tubing
bladder scan - Ans:✔✔-approximation of urine contained in bladder
Urinary pH - Ans:✔✔-acidity or alkalinity, average 6
glucose in urine - Ans:✔✔-none to negligible,
glucose can indicate diabetes or pregnancy
ketones - Ans:✔✔-breakdown of fatty acids, normally not present
Urine osmolality - Ans:✔✔-200-800 mOsm/kg
suprapubic urinary catheter - Ans:✔✔-a urinary catheter surgically inserted through a small incision
above the pubic area into the bladder
ureterostomy - Ans:✔✔-creation of an artificial opening into the ureter
ileal conduit - Ans:✔✔-urinary diversion in which the ureters are connected to the ileum with a stoma
created on the abdominal wall
nephrostomy - Ans:✔✔-creation of an artificial opening into the kidney
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NU-116 exam 5 Questions and Answers
Which kidney is lower? - Ans:✔✔-right because of the liver
which organ is the primary regulator of fluid and acid-base - Ans:✔✔-kidneys
How many nephrons per kidney? - Ans:✔✔-1 million
glomerulus - Ans:✔✔-filters fluid and solutes
How big are the ureters? - Ans:✔✔-10-12" length, 0.5" diameter
bladder capacity - Ans:✔✔-300-500/600mL Urine
Where is the female bladder located? - Ans:✔✔-lies behind symphysis pubis
Where is the male bladder located? - Ans:✔✔-in front of the rectum and above the prostate gland
what muscles allow the bladder to expand? - Ans:✔✔-detrusor muscles
Urethra - Ans:✔✔-passage for urine
Female urethra length - Ans:✔✔-1.5 inches
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female urethra function - Ans:✔✔-passage of urine only
Male urethra length - Ans:✔✔-8 inches
male urethra function - Ans:✔✔-passage of urine and semen
internal sphincter muscle - Ans:✔✔-involuntary urination
external sphincter muscle - Ans:✔✔-voluntary urination
micturition - Ans:✔✔-urination
amount of urine per hour - Ans:✔✔-50 mL
30 mL minimum
Specific gravity of urine - Ans:✔✔-1.005-1.025
How many times a day may infants void? - Ans:✔✔-up to 20 times
How many times a day may school age children void? - Ans:✔✔-6-8 times per day
may experience nocturnal enuresis/bed wetting
What factors may affect renal function - Ans:✔✔--developmental
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-psychosocial
-fluid and food intake
-medications
-muscle tone
polyuria - Ans:✔✔-excessive urination
diuresis - Ans:✔✔-excessive urination
oliguria - Ans:✔✔-Decreased urine output
anuria - Ans:✔✔-absence of urine
urinary tract infection - Ans:✔✔-infection of one or more organs of the urinary tract
dysuria - Ans:✔✔-painful urination
urinary hesitancy - Ans:✔✔-difficulty in starting a urinary stream
urinary retention - Ans:✔✔-inability to empty the bladder
nocturia - Ans:✔✔-urination at night
Symptoms of UTI - Ans:✔✔--Urinary urgency, frequency, dysuria
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clean catch specimen - Ans:✔✔-Clean area, pee little then collect urine (midstream)
indwelling catheter specimen - Ans:✔✔-obtain specimen from port of tubing
bladder scan - Ans:✔✔-approximation of urine contained in bladder
Urinary pH - Ans:✔✔-acidity or alkalinity, average 6
glucose in urine - Ans:✔✔-none to negligible,
glucose can indicate diabetes or pregnancy
ketones - Ans:✔✔-breakdown of fatty acids, normally not present
Urine osmolality - Ans:✔✔-200-800 mOsm/kg
suprapubic urinary catheter - Ans:✔✔-a urinary catheter surgically inserted through a small incision
above the pubic area into the bladder
ureterostomy - Ans:✔✔-creation of an artificial opening into the ureter
ileal conduit - Ans:✔✔-urinary diversion in which the ureters are connected to the ileum with a stoma
created on the abdominal wall
nephrostomy - Ans:✔✔-creation of an artificial opening into the kidney
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