Assessment Procedure 1: UTI and Urinary Retention

Assessment

Procedure 1: UTI and Urinary Retention

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Expert Solution

UTI- urinary tract infections is a infection of the urinary system and occur in the lower urinary tract.

Assessment

Subjective- painful urination, bloody or cloudy urine, changes in characteristic of urination, frequent night time urination.

Objective- inspect the inflammation of urinary meatus, palpate bladder distension or tenderness. Auscultation of renal arteries of bruits. Percussion of costovertebral angle for tenderness.

Diagnostic assessment-

Urine analysis for presence of puss cell , WBC, RBC or Bacteria.

BUN level - elevated

Serum creatinine level- elevated

Urinary retention - it is accumulation of the urine in the urinaary bladder. As bladder is unable to empty itself.

Risk factor assessment- BPH, disk surgery or hysterectomy and side effect of medication ( anticholinergic, antihistamines, antihypertensive, anesthetic agents).

Assessment-

Subjective- discomfort, anxiety, frequent urint and voiding, dribbling

Objective- assesment of degree of bladder is firm and distension, voiding frequency, discomfort or pain in pelvic region, overflow incontinence, fluid intake is larger than output.

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