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BNS EXAM 3 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS Question: 1. bowel elimination Answer: Begins in the mouth and ends as waste products areeliminated (feces/stool) from the anus (defecation) Question: 2. Timing of elimination Answer: Usually after 30 minutes to an hour after eating Question: 3. Characteristics of feces Answer: Soft, formed, light yellowish-brown to dark brown, slightly odiferous, and falls into a slightly curved shape Question: 4. Normal Characteristics- Consistency Answer: Soft, formed consistency Question: 5. Normal Characteristics- shape Answer: Longer curved shape, cylindrical Question: 6. Normal Characteristics- color Answer: Yellow in infants Light brown to dark brown in others Question: 7. Abnormal Characteristics - Consistency Answer: Liquid or semiliquid, watery, unformed, very hard and dry Question: 8. Abnormal Characteristics shape Answer: Balls, clumps, or broken-off chunks; flat or ribbonlike; pencil-like

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BNS EXAM 3 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. bowel elimination
Answer:
Begins in the mouth and ends as waste products areeliminated (feces/stool) from the anus (defecation)

Question:
2. Timing of elimination
Answer:
Usually after 30 minutes to an hour after eating

Question:
3. Characteristics of feces
Answer:
Soft, formed, light yellowish-brown to dark brown, slightly odiferous, and falls into a slightly curved shape

Question:
4. Normal Characteristics- Consistency
Answer:
Soft, formed consistency

Question:
5. Normal Characteristics- shape
Answer:
Longer curved shape, cylindrical

Question:
6. Normal Characteristics- color
Answer:
Yellow in infants Light brown to dark brown in others

Question:
7. Abnormal Characteristics - Consistency
Answer:
Liquid or semiliquid, watery, unformed, very hard and dry

Question:
8. Abnormal Characteristics shape
Answer:
Balls, clumps, or broken-off chunks; flat or ribbonlike; pencil-like

Question:
9. Abnormal Characteristics- color

,Answer:
Bright red blood, black, coffee grounds appearance, pale, white, gray, or clay color

Question:
10. normal characteristics- Presence of infection
Answer:
Absence of pus, mucus, fat

Question:
11. normal characteristics - Presence of parasites
Answer:
Absence of parasites

Question:
12. normal characteristics - Odor
Answer:
Slight odor

Question:
13. Abnormal Characteristics- Presence of infection
Answer:
Presence of pus, excessive mucus, foamy, or floating on water

Question:
14. Abnormal Characteristics- Presence of parasites
Answer:
Presence of worms or eggs

Question:
15. Abnormal Characteristics - Odor
Answer:
Foul odor, strongly odiferous, bloody or old-blood smell, metallic smell

Question:
16. Determine
Answer:
Determine normal bowel movement frequency pattern

Question:
17. Document
Answer:
Document frequency, amount, color, and consistency

Question:
18. Assess

, Answer:
Assess bowel sounds at least once a shift, noting hypoactive, hyperactive, or absent sound

Question:
19. Reposition
Answer:
Reposition at least every 2 hours and ROM at least twice a day

Question:
20. Increase
Answer:
Increase activity by ambulating 3-4 times daily, getting up in chair for meals

Question:
21. encourage
Answer:
- Encourage fluids, including water and fruit juices, as allowed by HCP orders
- Encourage fiber intake as allowed by HCP orders, including whole grains, fruits, and vegetables

Question:
22. Shape of abdomen
Answer:
The shape should be rounded or flat, not distended or inflated

Question:
23. Auscultate the bowel sounds
Answer:
• Listen in all four quadrants at least once per shif

Question:
24. Impaction or intestinal blockage:
Answer:
hyperactive bowel sounds proximal to the blockage, while distal to the blockage distant or even absent
bowel sounds may be noted

Question:
25. Avoid palpating the abdomen until after what?
Answer:
after bowel sounds have been auscultated

Question:
26. Normal bowel sound
Answer:
Soft gurgles, irregular clicks Between 5 and 30 per minute

Question:
27. Normal bowel sounds indicate what?

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