Nursing 1180A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chym-Fm, Defecation, Vagus Nerve
24 Nov 2017
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Week 8 nutrition & metabolism (gi health assessment) Risk factors: alcohol/ substance abuse, occupation, foreign travel. Now to the gi assessment: nursing history, starts physical information. Colour of bowel movements: orange bowel movement, certain medications with beta-carotene (such as a form of vitamin a) can cause orange coloring of your stool. It can also be caused by vitamins that contain chlorophyll. These may not appear green, but the chlorophyll in them will turn stool a green color: a fast transit time can cause a stool to turn green. If your stool is passing too rapidly through your intestines, it does not allow bile to break it down. The difference between this color and the black or tarry color is the location of the bleeding. Fluids: over use of laxatives can produce lazy stools, pmh, meds. Iapp light palpation only: goal assess structures of lower gi tract including superficial organs or masses, superficial means constipation.
