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Feeding and Eliminat
Question | Answer |
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ANURIA | absence/without urine; volume is less than 100 ml w/in 24 hours |
DYSURIA | painful/difficulty with urination |
FREQUENCY | the need to void often |
URINE INCONTINENCE | inability to prevent passing urine |
OLIGURIA | less than 400 ml urine within 24 hours |
URINARY RETENTION | incomplete emptying of the bladder (urine left in the bladder after voiding) |
URGENCY | strong feeling that urine must be eliminated quickly |
NOCTURIA | voiding more than twice at night |
DIURESIS | increased urinary output |
NOCTURNAL ENURESIS | involuntary discharge of urine after the age of 5 when bladder control should have been established |
HESITANCY | involuntary delay in initiating urine |
POLYURIA | large amounts of urine output. (more than 1500 cc per day) |
STRESS INCONTINENCE | loss of small amounts of urine is lost during situations when intraabdominal pressure rises (sneezing, coughing, laughing, rising from bed or chair) |
RESIDUAL URINE | urine left in the bladder |
MICTURITION | voiding or urination |
CYSTITIS | inflammation of bladder - frequent urgency and burning with bladder infection |
LASIX | drug to make you urinate |
normal ph of urine | 5.5 to 7.0 (H+ ions) |
normal specific gravity | 1.001 to 1.035 |
what does cloudy urine mean? | infection or bacteria |
HEMATURIA | urine containing blood from somewhere from urinary system |
PYURIA | pus in urine (bacterial infection in urinary bladder or kidney) |
PROTEINURIA | protein in urine (stress, infection, strenous exercise or disorder of the kidney) |
GLYCOSURIA | glucose/sugar in kidney |
KETONURIA | ketones on urine (ketoacidosis from uncontrolled DM) |
URINAL | cylindrical container for mails for urine collection |
COMMODE | chair with container inserted to catch urine or feces; used at bedside as toilet |
BEDPAN | metal or plastic seat-like device, placed under buttocks while in bed |
STRESS | urethral sphincter failure |
URGE | need to void as perceive frequently |
REFLEX | spontaneous loss of urine when bladder is stretched |
FUNCTIONAL | inability to recognize the urge to void |
OVERFLOW | urine leakage |
CREDES MANEUVER | A method for expressing urine by pressing the hand on the bladder, especially a paralyzed bladder. |
KEGEL EXERCISES | isometric exercises to strenghten pelvic floor muscles |
LEUKOCYTES | present in urine if infected |
PERISTALSIS | rhythmic muscular movement to elementary canal |
STEATORRHEA | fatty stools |
MELENA | black tarry stools |
STOOL FOR OB (OCCULT BLOOD) | if you see bright blood in stool = lower GI Bleed.; if you see very dark or black blood = upper GI bleed, blodd has been digested |
2 KINDS OF ENEMAS | oil retention and cleansing |
OIL RETENTION ENEMA | hold for 30 minutes |
CLEANSING ENEMA | 500 to 1000 cc's |
normal protein | 20 to 02% protein |
method of feeding a blind person | clock face method |
DYSPHAGIA | difficulty swallowing |
DYSPHASIA | difficulty speaking |
XEROSTOMIA | dryness of mouth due to reduction of amt of salivary secretion |
DYSOSMIA | distortion of normal smell perception |
DYSGEUSIA | normal tastes are interpreted as being unpleasant or completely different from usual taste of food or chemical compound |