Question

An older adult woman who is incontinent of stool following a cerebrovascular accident will have which of the following nursing diagnoses?

a) Diarrhea related to tube feedings, as evidenced by hyperactive bowel sounds and urgency
b) Fecal retention related to loss of sphincter control, and diminished spinal cord innervation related to hemiparesis
c) Bowel incontinence related to loss of sphincter control, as evidenced by inability to delay the urge to defecate
d) Constipation related to physiologic condition involving the deficit in neurologic innervation, as evidenced by fecal incontinence

Answer 1

C.) Bowel Incontinence related to loss of sphincter control, as evidenced by inability to delay the urge to defecate

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