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Stool Assessment

This document discusses the assessment and analysis of a stool sample. It describes the sample as a type 3 on the Bristol Stool Chart, which is a sausage shape with cracks on the surface. This is considered a normal stool sample as it indicates complete digestion without any undigested food visible. Abnormal stool samples could indicate internal bleeding or other issues. When collecting stool samples, safety guidelines like wearing gloves and properly disposing of samples must be followed to prevent disease transmission. As nurses, properly collecting, transporting, and documenting specimens is an important professional responsibility.

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Stool Assessment

This document discusses the assessment and analysis of a stool sample. It describes the sample as a type 3 on the Bristol Stool Chart, which is a sausage shape with cracks on the surface. This is considered a normal stool sample as it indicates complete digestion without any undigested food visible. Abnormal stool samples could indicate internal bleeding or other issues. When collecting stool samples, safety guidelines like wearing gloves and properly disposing of samples must be followed to prevent disease transmission. As nurses, properly collecting, transporting, and documenting specimens is an important professional responsibility.

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Name: Alexander James T.

Mendoza

Course/Year/Block: BSN 2-5

Directions: 
• Take a picture of your own stool (or any stool available that you can use for this assignment). 

• Assess the type of your stool specimen based on the Bristol Stool Chart. 

Type 3 - A sausage shape with crack on the surface

• Explain its fecal characteristics.

Because there is no watery stool involved, the digestive system is functioning normally, and the
stool is complete and not small like goat poop, indicating that the food was digested completely in the
stool in the picture, with no indigested food visible.

• Based on your assessment, would you consider it as a normal or an abnormal stool? 

A normal stool is sausage-shaped with a crack on the surface, similar to type 3; there is no water
on the stool; the stool is slightly hard; and when you have flatulence, it flows smoothly with no sign of
stool involvement.

• What are the possible implication of an abnormal stool? 

You can easily detect an abnormal stool because number 7 in the Bristol chart has the severe condition
that no hard stool is involved, which is a very common assessment of stool in children. If the stool is
different in color, for example black, there is a high chance that you have internal bleeding, which can
happen when you have dengue fever, so the patient or client should avoid dark foods.

• What are the safety guidelines you have performed while collecting and discarding the stool sample? 

When a patient comes to us to have his or her feces examined, we must first teach them how to
collect it, then give them the container so they may begin collecting it. They must then wash their hands
to avoid germ contamination, and then put on gloves to touch the specimen. The feces can be evaluated
28 hours after collection, so inspect it as soon as possible before it expires, and don't forget to record
the patient's name, date, and collection time.

• As a nurse, what would be your professional responsibility in collection of specimen? Explain. 

The most crucial phase in the recovery of pathogenic organisms responsible for infectious illness
is the collecting, processing, and management of specimens by you, the healthcare practitioner. It is one
method of determining a patient's health state by detecting pathogens and examining urine, blood,
sputum, and feces. As nurses, one of our many obligations is to collect and mark specimens for analysis
and to assure their transportation to the lab. And understanding how to collect specimens correctly is
essential for self-protection and preventing disease transmission.

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