Urinary stream

Urinary stream

An elder male client tells the nurse that he is loosing sleep because he has to get up several times at night to go to the bathroom that he has trouble starting his urinary stream and that he does not feel like his bladder is ever completely empty. Which intervention should the nurse implement?

a. collect a urine specimen for culture analysis

b. obtain a fingerstick blood glucose level

c. palpate the bladder above the symphysis pubis

d. review the client fluid intake