The nurse is collecting data from a hospital patient who has been admitted with pyelone-phritis. He is acutely ill with a high fever, chills, nausea, and vomiting. He also has severe pain in the flank area. The primary goal of his treatment is to:
1. provide adequate nutrition with a stable body weight.
2. provide adequate hydration with pulse and blood pressure within patient norms.
3. give pain relief with analgesics and antispasmodics.
4. prevent further damage to his kidneys that could lead to renal failure.
4
Pyelonephritis can cause scarring of the renal parenchyma and result in atrophy of the af-fected kidney, which means that the kidney is failing.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: 856
OBJ: 6 TOP: Pyelonephritis
KEY: Nursing Process Step: Planning MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity
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