A Patient with Paraplegia Resulting from a T10 Spinal Cord

question 16

Multiple Choice

A patient with paraplegia resulting from a T10 spinal cord injury has a neurogenic reflex bladder. Which action will the nurse include in the plan of care?

• A) Educate on the use of the Credé method.
• B) Teach the patient how to self-catheterize.
• C) Catheterize for residual urine after voiding.
• D) Assist the patient to the toilet every 2 hours.

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Definitions:

Variable Overhead Efficiency Variance

Variable overhead efficiency variance is a metric used to measure the difference between the expected (standard) and actual use of variable overhead resources in production.

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Variable Overhead Rate Variance

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