Urinary Elimination and Care Study Guide
Learn about the fundamentals of nutritional support, including assessment techniques, the roles of different nutrients, therapeutic dietary modifications for various conditions, and methods for delivering nutrition when oral intake is not possible. This guide also covers managing common nutritional challenges and monitoring fluid balance.
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Nutritional Support, Elimination, and Hygiene Management
Nutritional Support and Care
Discuss the importance of intake and output, therapeutic diets, dietary modifications, and impaired nutritional intake.
- Intake and output
- Therapeutic diets
- Dietary modifications
- Impaired nutritional intake
- Enteral feeding
- Gastric decompression
- Dysphagia
- Macronutrients
- Micronutrients
- Nutritional assessment
- Food allergies
- Food intolerances
- Diabetic nutritional nursing care
- Glycemic index
- Hyperglycemia
- Hypoglycemia
Nutritional Support and Care: A Comprehensive Guide
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Nutritional Assessment and Enteral Nutrition Management
Monitoring the status of patients receiving parenteral nutrition and managing enteral tube feeding through nutritional assessment and dietary interventions.
- Parenteral nutrition monitoring
- Electrolyte levels
- Prealbumin, albumin, and total protein
- Glucose levels
- Nutritional assessment
- Enteral tube feeding
- Nasogastric tube administration
- Tube placement verification
- Dietary restrictions
Bowel Elimination and Ostomy Care
Information regarding types of enemas, solutions used in cleansing enemas, complications of enemas, ostomies, ostomy appliances, and documentation for bowel elimination.
- Cleansing enemas
- Oil retention enemas
- Medicating enemas
- Return flow enema
- Hypertonic sodium phosphate
- Fluid and electrolyte issues
- Vagal response
- Bowel rupture
- Perforation of the intestinal wall
- Ileostomy
- Colostomy
- Ostomy appliances
- Documentation for bowel elimination
Hygiene and Pathogen Transmission Prevention
Hygiene involves actions and practices that decrease the spread or transmission of pathogens to lessen the occurrence of illness.
- Hygiene definition
- Physical barriers
- Integumentary system
- Mucous membranes
- Skin layers (epidermis, dermis, hypodermis)
- Langerhans cells
- Handwashing
- Health care-associated infections (HAIs)
- Health promotion
- Bariatric physiological changes
- Dementia and personal hygiene
- Perineal care
- Complete and partial bed baths
Hygiene and Pathogen Transmission Prevention
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Urinary Elimination and Care
The urinary tract eliminates waste and excess fluid from the body in the form of urine.
- Urinary tract function
- Homeostasis
- Dysuria
- Nocturia
- Oliguria
- Polyuria
- Hematuria
- Proteinuria
- Uric acid
- Creatinine
- Urinary assessment
- Urinalysis
- Daily weight
- Normal characteristics of urine
- Urine specimens
- Clean-catch urinalysis
- Timed urinary collection
- Reagent testing
- Straining urine
Understanding Urinary Elimination and Care
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Nursing Care for Nutrition and Elimination
Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition Nursing Care
Nutritional intake through the gastrointestinal tract via enteral tubes or parenteral nutrition through intravenous catheters.
- Enteral nutrition
- Tube feeding
- PEG gastrostomy tube
- Nasogastric tube
- Nasointestinal tube
- Gastric decompression
- PEG gastrostomy tube
- Intermittent bolus feedings
- Continuous infusion feedings
- Complications of enteral tube feedings
- Aspiration
- Electrolyte imbalance
- Hyperglycemia
- Partial parenteral nutrition (PPN)
- Total parenteral nutrition (TPN)
Bowel Elimination and Gastrointestinal Care
This unit covers gastrointestinal system terminology, normal and abnormal feces characteristics, common alterations in bowel elimination, and nursing interventions.
- Gastrointestinal System
- Normal Feces Characteristics
- Steatorrhea
- Occult Blood
- Hemoccult/Guaiac Test
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Impaction
- Fecal Incontinence
- Factors Affecting Bowel Elimination
- Nursing Interventions
- Laboratory Tests
- Culture and Sensitivity
- Ova and Parasite Test
Nursing Care for Urinary Elimination
Guidelines for inserting catheters, nursing care of patients with indwelling catheters, urinary diversions, and treatment of urinary tract infections.
- Guidelines for inserting catheters
- Surgical asepsis
- Indwelling catheter care
- Urinary drainage bag care
- Triple lumen catheter
- Urinary diversions
- Urostomy
- Continent urostomy
- Neobladder
- Orthoptic bladder substitution
- Urinary tract infections
- Symptoms of UTI
- Treatment of UTI
- Pyelonephritis
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