A client with a new colostomy is working to establish a pattern of elimination. The nurse would formulate with the client an outcome criterion that corresponds to:
1. a random bowel elimination pattern.
2. a bowel elimination pattern that is normal for the client.
3. daily bowel evacuation.
4. daily dietary intake.
Question 2
A client tells the nurse that the physician just stated that it will be necessary to use a tube to directly look at the client's lower gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
The nurse anticipates that this client will need to undergo preparation for which of the following tests?
1. lower GI series (x-rays)
2. colonoscopy
3. flat plate of the abdomen
4. ultrasound of the abdomen
Radial pattern of shoot growth in plants
Testing Visual Fields by Confrontation: The nurse and patient should be approximately at an eye to e
A physician is performing a colonoscopy on a client and viewing the internal structures of the colon
Colostomy sites.
Example of simplified note for one-time client.
Pattern for auscultation: Posterior thorax