When the patient reports he has blood in his urine the moment he starts to void that disappears until the next time he voids, the nurse is aware that the source of the bleeding is most probably:

a. in the kidney.
b. above the neck of the bladder.
c. in the neck of the bladder.
d. in the urethra.


D
Hematuria that begins at the initiation of the stream, then abates, is usually in the urethra. Bleed-ing from the neck of the bladder will appear at the end of the voiding. Bleeding from above the neck of the bladder will be present all the time.

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