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By the end of this lesson the learner can: Distinguish urinary retention from the main incontinence patterns and name the first bedside check for each.
NCLEX-RN
NCLEX-RN
By the end of this lesson the learner can: - Distinguish urinary retention from the main incontinence patterns and name the first bedside check for each. - Explain what a bladder scan measures, when it is used, and why the number is interpreted against the patient's symptoms and the ordered or protocol threshold rather than alone. - Describe the indications for an indwelling urethral catheter, the aseptic principles for insertion, the maintenance bundle, and the daily review that gets the catheter removed. - Recognize catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) and state which practices prevent it and which popular practices do not. - Differentiate constipation, fecal impaction and infectious diarrhea, and apply contact precautions with soap-and-water hand hygiene for suspected Clostridioides difficile. - Recognize autonomic dysreflexia in a person with a high spinal cord injury and carry out the first actions in order. - Match laxative and antidiarrheal classes to the patient and name the situations in which each is contraindicated. - Identify medications that cause or worsen retention, constipation and incontinence, and state the monitoring and escalation that follows. -...
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