Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
Urinary tract infections can occur in the upper or lower areas of the urinary system. The urinary system includes the bladder and kidneys. Upper urinary tract infections (UTIs) occur in the kidney and often have similar symptoms as lower UTIs that occur in the bladder. Similar symptoms are frequent urination of small volume that is painful and can progress into a fever. A key difference however, is that upper UTIs can result in severe and possibly life-threatening kidney infections and thus people may experience pain in the flank area along with vomiting and nausea (Huether & McCance, ).
Maintaining the theme of the urinary system, a male reproductive system disorder that is common is urethritis. Urethritis is an inflammatory process that usually, not always caused by a sexually transmitted organism. Infectious urethritis caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae is often called gonococcal urethritis (Huether & McCance, 2015, p. 855). Additionally, there are nonsexual origins for the disorder that can be caused by urologic procedures, anatomic abnormalities, trauma, or insertion of foreign bodies into urethra. Symptoms for the disorder include, urethral tingling or itching or a burning sensation, and frequency and urgency with urinationmay note a purulent or...…and can have similar symptoms to a lower UTI. Males may acquire this through sexual contact although non-sexual urethritis can occur in boys as young as 7 years of age or possibly younger. Phimosis and paraphimosis is when the foreskin of the penis is too tight and unable to easily move over the glans penis. This often happens in newborn males or may happen in older male children due to adhesion issues. Both disorders affect the penis but in different areas, similar to upper and lower UTIs. Key differences are the areas affected, how the disorder is developed and the age…
References
Huether, S. E., & McCance, K. L. (2015). Understanding Pathophysiology - E-Book (6th ed.). Elsevier Health Sciences.
Jayakumar, S., Pringle, K., & Ninan, G. (2014). Steroid Instillation for Idiopathic Urethritis in Children: An 8-Year experience. European Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 25(02), 212-215. doi:10.1055/s-0034-1368800
A patient realizes increased need to urinate at night. There are episodes of chills and persistent fever that last for more than two days. A patient may also realize pain in the flank that runs along the back at about waist level (Harvey & Zieve, D, 2013). Vomiting and nausea is also common. Urinary Tract Infections in infants and toddlers tend to be more severe than in young women. This
coli bacteria was essential given the purpose of the study, which aimed at determining how repeated cases f urinary tract infections were caused. Specific strains of the bacteria were identified from each of the seventeen infants initially diagnosed with a urinary tract infection that were a part of the study, and these were compared to cultures taken from infant during subsequent infections. The results showed that each infant had
Urinary Tract Infection and Prevention Research write 5 literature review catheter acquired urinary tract infection prevention. Catheter-associated (CA) bacteriuria is health care infection associated with the wide spreed urinary catheterization in hospitals and long-term care facilities worldwide. Considerable costs, personnel, time are spent by health care institutions to minimize the infection rate of CA infections, especially the urinary tract infections - CA urinary tract infections (Graves N. et al., 2007). Urinary catheterisation
Urinary tract infection (UTIs) refers to urinary tract symptomatic bacterial infection. As mentioned in the lesson, Escherichia coli is the most common infecting microorganism with Staphylococcus saprophyticus as the second most common (Huether & McCance, 2015, p. 753). While other organisms like fungi or viruses can infect the urinary tract, bacterial infections are most common. The lower UTI is called cystitis and affects the bladder. The upper UTI is called
Case Study: Urinary Tract Infection CHIEF COMPLAINT: Urination with a burning sensation, pelvic genital pain, frequent and urgent urination, urine which is colored for the past three days and dribbling urination. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: A patient visits complaining about urination with a burning sensation, pelvic genital pain, frequent and urgent urination, urine which is colored for three days and dribbling urination. He is an African American who is 58 years old.
Nursing Informatics The scenario described herein is in grounded in geriatric medicine, and utilizes the NANDA, NIC, and NOC elements to link the various components in standardized language to the data, information, knowledge, and wisdom associated with this exercise. The key parts of the paper are as follows: 1) Introduction; 2) nursing diagnosis (NANDA), including actual diagnosis, risk diagnosis, and wellness diagnosis; 3) nursing outcomes classification (NOC); 4) nursing interventions classification