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eruditmonkey@yahoo.com · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

The nurse provides knows that a bowel elimination schedule would be most beneficial in the plan of care for which patient?

a. A 40-year-old patient with an ileostomy
b. A 25-year-old patient with Crohn's disease
c. A 30-year-old patient with C. difficile
d. A 70-year-old patient with stool incontinence

Question 2

Fecal impactions occur in which portion of the colon?

a. Ascending
b. Descending
c. Transverse
d. Rectum

Chocorrol77 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
A bowel elimination program is helpful for a patient with incontinence. It helps the person who still has neuromuscular control defecate normally. An ileostomy, Crohn's disease, and C. difficile all relate to uncontrollable bowel movements, for which no method can be used to set up a schedule of elimination.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
A fecal impaction is a collection of hardened feces wedged in the rectum that cannot be expelled. It results from unrelieved constipation. Feces at this point in the colon contain the least amount of moisture. Feces found in the ascending, transverse, and descending colon still consist mostly of liquid and do not form a hardened mass.