Acute UI Interventions


Acute urinary incontinence (UI) is involuntary loss of urine that begins suddenly and resolves in less than 6 months. Chronic UI continues for more than 6 months.

Nursing interventions for the management of acute UI will focus on:

"CORRECT THE OBVIOUS and COLLABORATE"

 

"DIAPPERS" mnemonic acronym to quickly remember potentially reversible causes of urinary incontinence.

 Delirium/confusional states
 Infection-urinary (symptomatic)
 Atrophic urethritis/vaginitis
 Pharmaceuticals
 Psychological, especially depression
 Excessive excretion (i.e., CHF, hyperglycemia)
 Restricted mobility
 Stool impaction

 

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