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Active Health Institute Nursing Diseases of the Kidney Questions

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Can you help me understand this Nursing question?

A client arrives at the emergency department with complaints of low abdominal pain and  hematuria. The client is afebrile. The nurse next assesses the client to determine a history of which  condition?

A. Pyelonephritis 

B. Glomerulonephritis

 C. Trauma to the bladder or abdomen

 D. Renal cancer in the client’s family.

I. Expand on your rationale. 

II. Describe Glomerulonephritis, including causes, complications, assessment findings,  and nursing interventions.

III. Describe Pyelonephritis, assessment findings, and interventions.

A common cause of renal colic which originates in the lumbar region and radiates around the side  and down to the testicles in men and to the bladder in women is renal calculi.

 I. Provide a briefly description of renal calculi

II. Causes III. Assessment findings

 IV. Nursing interventions including nutritional therapy.

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