What is a symptom of a lower urinary tract infection? - ANS Urgency
What is true regarding complicated UTIs? - ANS Can be caused by a structural urinary tract disorder
What can help prevent a UTI? - ANS Increased water consumption
True/False: Women are at higher ris...
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What is a symptom of a lower urinary tract infection? - ANS Urgency
What is true regarding complicated UTIs? - ANS Can be caused by a structural urinary
tract disorder
What can help prevent a UTI? - ANS Increased water consumption
True/False: Women are at higher risk of developing UTI because they have a shorter urethra -
ANS True
What is a risk factor for developing a UTI? - ANS Pregnancy
What is true regarding an uncomplicated UTI? - ANS - Occurs in the normal urinary tract
- Responds well to short-course of antibiotics
What is true regarding a complicated UTI? - ANS - UTI that extends beyond the bladder
- Infants & older adults are usually affected
- Caused by structural/functional urinary tract abnormalities or a untreated UTI
What will the urinalysis of a patient with a UTI show? - ANS WBCs & casts
The NP knows an uncomplicated UTI because - ANS the UTI responds well to a
short-course of antibiotic therapy
Highly suspective that causative bacteria of UTI is gram negative because of the presence of -
ANS Nitrites
A common organism that causes a UTI includes - ANS Staphylococcus saprophyticus
True/False: There is a significant risk for men with BPH to develop cellular mutations that lead to
prostate cancer - ANS False
True/False: The peripheral zone of the prostate is the largest zone - ANS True
, On digital rectal exam to assess quality of prostate, NP would be concerned with a hard nodule
because - ANS it indicates prostate cancer
The patient most often develops symptoms of BPH when - ANS the prostatic urethra
becomes obstructed
True/False: The purpose of straining in BPH is to overcome the obstruction encountered during
urination - ANS True
What is the reaction of 5-Alpha reductase inhibitors? - ANS To cause shrinkage of the
prostate gland
Where are the hyper plastic nodules of BPH located? - ANS Periurethral zone
Why are men who have BPH prone to develop UTIs? - ANS Because of the stagnation of
urine in the bladder that promotes bacterial growth.
True/False: PSA helps liquefy semen post-ejaculation - ANS True
True/False: The underlying cause of BPH is that normal prostate cells respond to increases in
dihydrotestosterone that causes them to live longer & multiply - ANS True
What is the most common type of formed stone? - ANS Calcium stone
What is the type of stone formed during a UTI? - ANS Struvite stone
True/False: The gold standard for diagnosing a renal stone is a urinalysis - ANS False- CT
scan is the gold standard for diagnosing a renal stone
True/False: Renal stones are formed when calcium & oxalate in the urine combine - ANS
True
True/False: Renal calculi are typically confined to the bladder - ANS False - Renal calculi
can be found in the ureter or the bladder
Why can hematuria be seen with kidney stones? - ANS BTrecause the stone injures the
urinary structures as it passes through them
True/False: Renal colic is caused by the passing of the stone through the ureter - ANS
True
True/False: At least half of individuals with renal stones will have a reoccurrence within 10 years
of their prior stone. - ANS True
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