1) How should a urine sample be collected to ensure accurate laboratory results? As a nurse, what can you do to encourage this practice?
A urine specimen can me collected in many ways: clean-catch method, by using a catheter, suprapubic, cystoscopy, and nephrostomy. Edith is a patient that could easily use the clean-catch method. This method is for patients that can understand instructions for depositing urine into a sterile cup. The female patient is to first wash her hands to avoid contamination, then she can be given a sterile cup to deposit the urine into. The initial stream should be aimed into the toilet. Then she should pause and aim the stream towards the sterile cup. The cup should be held in one hand, while the other hand is used …show more content…
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5) How does the mechanism of action for clindamycin differ from Cipro? Clindamycin inhibits ribosomal translocation (RNA) whereas Cipro inhibits DNA replication, transcription, repair and recombination.
Resource:
"DrugBank: Clindamycin." DrugBank: Clindamycin. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2016.
6) Edith’s doctor recommended she start eating yogurt to avoid what common secondary infection often experienced by women on long-term antibiotic therapy? How does this work? A common infection that many women get while taking a long term antibiotic is a yeast infection. Edith’s doctor recommended her to eat yogurt because yogurt helps to restore normal bacteria in the intestines and vagina. It does this because when yogurt is made it is done so my fermenting milk using a variety of bacteria such as: lactobacillus acidophilus, and streptococcus thermophiles along with many more.
Resource:
"YOGURT: Uses, Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings - WebMD." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2016.
7) What do you suspect is causing Edith’s problem? I believe that her diarrhea is caused by taking the antibiotics.
8) What microbe is causing Edith’s diarrhea? What is the name of this disorder? Outline the basic characteristics of this
A urine specimen can me collected in many ways: clean-catch method, by using a catheter, suprapubic, cystoscopy, and nephrostomy. Edith is a patient that could easily use the clean-catch method. This method is for patients that can understand instructions for depositing urine into a sterile cup. The female patient is to first wash her hands to avoid contamination, then she can be given a sterile cup to deposit the urine into. The initial stream should be aimed into the toilet. Then she should pause and aim the stream towards the sterile cup. The cup should be held in one hand, while the other hand is used …show more content…
N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2016
5) How does the mechanism of action for clindamycin differ from Cipro? Clindamycin inhibits ribosomal translocation (RNA) whereas Cipro inhibits DNA replication, transcription, repair and recombination.
Resource:
"DrugBank: Clindamycin." DrugBank: Clindamycin. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2016.
6) Edith’s doctor recommended she start eating yogurt to avoid what common secondary infection often experienced by women on long-term antibiotic therapy? How does this work? A common infection that many women get while taking a long term antibiotic is a yeast infection. Edith’s doctor recommended her to eat yogurt because yogurt helps to restore normal bacteria in the intestines and vagina. It does this because when yogurt is made it is done so my fermenting milk using a variety of bacteria such as: lactobacillus acidophilus, and streptococcus thermophiles along with many more.
Resource:
"YOGURT: Uses, Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings - WebMD." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2016.
7) What do you suspect is causing Edith’s problem? I believe that her diarrhea is caused by taking the antibiotics.
8) What microbe is causing Edith’s diarrhea? What is the name of this disorder? Outline the basic characteristics of this