NUR 102 CH 29

Excrete 5-40 times a day

Excretes approximately every 2 hours

5-10 times a day

300-500 ml

250 ml

Excretion

Expelling urine

• Color: normally some shade of yelow with the average being straw or amber colored; Darker the color more concentrated it is
• Clarity: should be transparent or only slightly cloudy
• Odor: normally smells faintly or amonia
• Specific Gravity: the thiness or thickness of urine; normal range is 1.010-1.030
• pH: slightly acidic 5.5-7.0

Instrument that reads the amount of light urine absorbs

Inflammation of the bladder

Putting in a solution

Frequency, urgency, dysuria, burning, malaise, foul-smelling, and a slight temp. eleveation

• Painful urination
• Occurs when there is inflammation of the bladder or urethra usually due to infection or trauma

• present when less than 100ml of urine is excreted in 24h
• May be due to urinary supression, or the retention of urine

Occurs with a variety of pathologic conditions when it is due to decreased muscle tone special exercerises can be done

Occurs when the person must get up to void during the night more than twice

• Decreased amount of urine output
• Occurs when urine output falls below 400 ml in 24h
• May be a sifn of kidney failure, blockage of urine outflow somewhere in the system or retention

Excessive urination

• Glucose in the urine
• Is presnt when there is too much glucose in the blood or when the renal threshold for clucose is lowered for some reason

• Protein in the urine
• Occurs at times of stress, when infection is present, when there has been recent strenous activity, or when there is a disorder of the glomeruli

• Blood in the urine
• Occurs from bleeding somewhere in the urinary system

• Pus in the urine
• Occurs when there is a bacterial infection present in the kidney or bladder

• Ketones in the urine
• Occurs when the patient is in ketoacidosis. this occurs in uncontrolled diabetes

Occur in increased number in the presence of bacteria or protein, and indicate urinary stones or renal failure

In the urine greater than 0-2 per high power feild of the microschope may indacate a stone tumor glomerular disorder cystitis or bleeding disorder

In the urine mean there is an infectious or inflammatory process somewhere in the urinary tract

In the urine suggests liver disease or obstruction of the bile duct

Chair with a container inserted to catch urine or feces

Insertions of a tube into the bladder

Massage from top of bladder to bottom by starting above the pubic bone and rocking the pam of the hand steadily downward

Narrowed lumen

Above the pubic bone

Curved and has a rounded or bulbous tip that is easier to insert into the male urethra when the prostate is enlarged

• Used for continous bladder irrigation
• Has three lumens one for urine drainage one for inflation of the balloon and one for the instillation of the irrigation fluid

Has a tip shaped lake a mushroom is used for suprapubic drainage

Often used for nephrostomy tube if placed into the pelvis of the kidney

Consists of a condom with a tube attached to the distal end thats attachted to a drainage bag

Opening through which urine drains