Question

A nurse is caring for a diabetic patient with a diagnosis of nephropathy. what would the nurse expect the urinalysis report to indicate?

Answer 1

in this situation, since the patient is diagnosed with diabetes with neuropathy, the nurse would have already suspected that the results in his or her patient would be that the urine result would contain traces of albumin. These traces of albumin can pinpoint damage to the patient’s kidneys. In addition, the nurse can expect that the patient will have proteinuria that will have values of 150 mg/dL to greater than 300 mg/dL, glucosuria, and occasional hyaline casts. She could also expect that the albumin-creatinine ration would be greater than 30 for his or her patient.