A client comes into the emergency department with symptoms of renal colic.  The nurse realizes that this client most likely has a calculi that is obstructing the:

The nurse is reviewing data collected on a patient with a urinary tract disorder. Which health problem should the nurse suspect is affecting this patient? Urinalysis Results: Color-cloudy; Specific gravity – 1.020; Bacteria present – E Coli Subjective Data: “I have to urinate all the time and I have been chilling” Objective Data: Costovertebral tenderness, flank pain with palpation

The client is diagnosed with BPH, and is scheduled for transrectal ultrasound and measurement of a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level. The client says to the nurse, “I can’t remember-can you tell me again why I need these tests to be done?” The nurse would respond that the tests: 

A client had a transurethral prostatectomy for benign prostatic hypertrophy. He’s currently being treated with a continuous bladder irrigation and is complaining of an incrase in severity of bladder spasms. Which of the interventions should be done first?

A nurse is giving discharge instructions for a client who was diagnosed with acute pyelonephritis 3 days previously. Which instruction is important for the nurse to discuss when teaching the client?

The nurse is caring for an 88-year-old woman suspected of having a urinary tract infection (UTI). Which of the following symptoms, if noted in the client, would alert the nurse to the possibility of the presence of a UTI?

Which of the following is NOT a protease that functions in protein digestion?

Which of the following is NOT a function of hepatocytes?

Which of the following does NOT require adequate amounts of bile salts in the intestines for absorption?

Which of the following does NOT cause jaundice?