A urinary tract infection (UTI) is a bacterial infection that affects any part of the urinary tract. Symptoms include frequent feeling and/or need to urinate, pain during urination, and cloudy urine. The main causal agent is Escherichia coli. Although urine contains a variety of fluids, salts, and waste products, it does not usually have bacteria in it. When bacteria get into the bladder or kidney and multiply in the urine, they may cause a UTI.
Acute pain related to inflammation and infection of the urethra, bladder and other urinary tract structures.
Acute Pain Definition :
Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience arising from actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage (International Association for the Study of Pain); sudden or slow onset of any intensity from mild to severe with an anticipated or predictable end and a duration of less than 6 months.
Expected Result:
Pain is reduced / lost during and after micturitionNursing Intervention and Rationale:
- Monitor urine color change, monitor the pattern of urination, the input and output every 8 hours and monitor the results of urinalysis repeated. Rational: to identify indications of progress or deviations from the expected results
- Record the location, duration of the intensity scale (1-10) pain. Rational: to help evaluate the place of obstruction and cause pain
- Provide comfort measures, such as massage. Rational: increase relaxation, decrease muscle tension.
- Provide perineal care. Rational: to prevent contamination of the urethra
- If dipaang catheter, catheter treatment 2 times per day. Rational: The catheter provides a way for bacteria to enter the bladder and up into the urinary tract.
- Divert attention to a pleasant thing. Rational: relaxation, avoiding too much pain.
