Nurse Urinary Elimination Quiz

Pain during urination

Surgery is the first line of therapy for urinary incontience

• True

• False

Awakening at night to urinate

When a patient leaks a bit of urine while laughing, it is called what kind of incontience?

The first voided urine of the day is usually ____ concentrated than other urine excreted during the day.

• More

• Less

• Equally

• None of the above

The basic structural and functional unit of the kidney is

• Mitochondria

• Neuron

• Nephron

• Ribosome

A nurse can test urine for the presence of glucose, blood, protein, bilirubin, and bacteria.

• True

• False

What type of incontience is it when a patient has a broken leg which prevents them from getting to the bathroom.

Caffeine-containing beverages, such as soda, coffee, and tea, have a ____ effect

Phenazopyridine (Pyridium), a urinary tract analgesic, often used to treat UTIs, can cause urine to turn what colour?

An involuntary loss of urine related to an incrase in intra-abdominal pressure is called ______ incontinence.

Is it normal for mucus to appear in the urine of a patient with an ileal conduit?

_____ is a measure of the density of urine compared with the density of water.

Urine that appears cloudy or urine that has pus in it is called

Patients can be taught to insert and remove intermittent catheterse themselves

• True

• False

This type of catheter is used for long-term use and is surgically inserted through a small incision above the pubic area; it is often used due to urethra injury or blockage occurs.

Those who urinate frequently/infrequently usually have more/less urinary tract infections and kidney disorders.

Can the bladder be palpated when empty? Percussed?

Diuretics are commonly used in the treatment of:

• Low blood pressure

• High blood pressure

• Low blood sugar

• High blood sugar

• None of the above

Anuria is a 24-hour urine output that is less than ____ mL

A clean-catch specimen of urine is collected during _____

Blood in the urine, also known as _____, or pink or red coloured urine may be due to taking what drug?

Diuresis is also known as

• Glycosuria

• Pyuria

• Anuria

• Oliguria

• Polyuria

The involuntary losso fo urine that occurs soon after feeling an urgent need to void is called:

• Mixed incontience

• Stress incontinence

• Over-flow incontience

• Urge incontinence

• None of the above

Drugs known to be ______ are capable of causing kidney damage

Pee is also known as

• Micturation

• Urination

• Voiding

• All of the above

• None of the above

Experiencing overflow incontiennce and functional incontinence is considere to be what kind of incontience,

Catheter lumens are graded on a:

• Credes (C) scale

• French (F) scale

• Kegel (K) scale

• All of the above

• None of the above

What type of medication can lighten the color of urine to pale yellow?

What is it called when urine is produced normally but is not excreted completely from the bladder?

A 24-hour output of less than _____ mL is called oliguria

Weakening of which muscles is a common cause of urinary incontinence.

How many nephrons are in each kidney?

• 1,000

• 100,000

• 1 million

• 1 billion

• None of the above

Some causes of decreased muscles tone does not include which of the following:

• Muscle atrophy

• Exercise

• Trauma

• Foley catheter

• Immobility

Which of the following does not affect urination in older adults?

• Medications

• Decreased bladder contractility

• Extent of ability in the kidneys

• Motility problems

• None of the above

With micturation, the pressure within the bladder is _____ to the the pressure with the bladder is filling.

• Less than

• Greater than

• Equal to

• None of the above

What is the most common organismal cause of urinary tract infections?

• Staphylococcus aureus

• Being sexually active

• Diabetes mellitus

• Escherichia coli

• A and C

____ is the intentional or involuntary urination into bed or clothes that occurs after an urge when contience should be prese t,

What type of incontinence appears suddenly and lasts for 6 months or less.

Give the two names of the catheter used to drain the bladder for short periods of time (5 to 10 minutes)

Some antidepressants and B-complex vitamins can turn the urine ______

An antiparkinson drug and injectable iron compounds can turn urine into which two colours?

The presence of sugar in the urine is known as

Difficulty during urination is known as____; while scanty or diminshed amount urine is known as _____

• Dysuria; Anuria

• Anuria; Oliguria

• Dysuria; Oliguria

• Oliguria; Pyuria

• Pyuria; Dysuria

When assessing a patient's urine, check all of the following, but do not note:

• Colour of urine

• Odour of urine

• Sugar in urine

• Clarity of urine

• Sediment in urine

Obtaining a specimen for routine uralysis requires ____ technique

• Medical aseptic technique

• Sterile technique

• Surgical technique

Overflow incontience is:

• Continuous and unpredicaable loss of urine, resulting from surger, physical malformation, or trauma.

• The involuntary loss of urine that occurs soon after feeling an urgency to void

• Urine loss caused by the inability to reach the toilet

• Experiencing emptying of the bladder without the sensation of the need to void

• The involunary loss of urine associated with overdistension of the bladder

Which of the following is synonymous with a 24-hour output of less than 50 mL of urine?

• Renal failure

• Kidney shutdown

• Anuria

• All of the above

• None of the above