NUR 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Vagus Nerve, Hemorrhoid, Social History
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Segmentation is wave like movements moving back and forth. Peristalsis is a contraction moving in one direction. Constipation: a symptom, not a disease; infrequent stool/or hard, dry. Diarrhea: an increase in the number of stools and the passage of liquid, unformed feces. Flatulence: accumulation of gas in the intestine causing the walls to stretch. Impaction: results from unreleased constipation; a collection of hardened feces wedged in the rectum that a person cannot expel. Incontinence: inability to control passage of feces and gas to the anus. Hemorrhoids: dilated, engorged veins in the lining of the rectum. Take stool from two parts of stool. What a patient describes as normal or abnormal is often different from factors and conditions that tend to promote normal elimination. Identifying normal and abnormal patterns, habits, and the patient"s perception of normal and abnormal with regard to bowel elimination allows you to accurately determine a patient"s problems. Some diagnoses that apply to patients with elimination problems include:
