The nurse is caring for a male patient with functional incontinence. What action should the nurse take to help prevent incontinence?
a. Teach the patient how to do Kegel exercises.
b. Ensure that the patient has ready access to the urinal.
c. Teach the patient to increase the time between voiding.
d. Give the patient cranberry juice to keep the urine acidic.
ANS: B
Functional incontinence is the inability to reach the toilet because of environmental barriers, physical limitations, loss of memory, or disorientation, so ensuring access to a urinal is important. A. Kegel exercises are helpful with stress or urge incontinence. C. Prolonging the time between voiding is helpful for urge incontinence. D. Cranberry juice does not affect continence.
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