The patient is on postoperative day 1 after having undergone a TURP procedure. He has continuous bladder irrigation (CBI). Actual urine output during continuous bladder irrigation is calculated by
a. measuring and recording all fluid output in the drainage bag.
b. measuring the total output and deducting the total of the irrigating and intravenous solutions.
c. adding the total of the intravenous and irrigating solutions and then deducting the amount of output.
d. measuring total output and deducting the amount of irrigating solution used.
Question 2
A 75-year-old male resident of an assisted living facility has had an 8-week history of weight loss, weakness, and fever.
Recently, his symptoms have been determined by a Mantoux test to be caused by tuberculosis (TB), a diagnosis that has left the man distraught. What should the nurse tell the resident? A) Recent advances in medicine mean that a brief course of antibiotics will nearly always cure TB..
B) This will likely mean that you will have to move to a specific institution, but your prognosis is actually very positive..
C) This doesn't mean that you have been neglecting yourself; rather, it's a reflection of the fact that TB is much more common in recent years..
D) This will require a long course of medications, but if you're vigilant about taking them as scheduled, you'll likely have no long-term effects..
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