Below the kidney, almost everything is infection or obstruction, and the level of the problem predicts the symptoms and the fix. Take eight patients, place each one at the right level of the tract, then commit to a first nursing action. Then strain a stone and build its prevention plan, and finish by sorting five patterns of leaking — because the treatment for each one is completely different.
Step 1 — where does this problem live?
Step 2 — your first nursing action
Patient 1 of 8Level 0 · Action 0
You strained every urine. The fragment came back as
Now build the discharge plan — select every card that belongs
Two cards belong in every stone plan. Two belong in none. The rest depend entirely on what the laboratory just told you — which is exactly why you strained.