University of the Philippines Manila

SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES

Main Campus
Palo, Leyte

CH 54: Fundamentals of Health Care 3

Assignment Guide 6.B Learning Log for week 6

Unit 4. Promoting Urinary Elimination.

I used to think that this topic is will help me to care with urine elimination problem. I used also
to think that this topic is not totally easy. Seems like new topic for me, but I can adjust just to
learn and to apply this in reality.

Now I know that eliminated urine is the kidney and urinary systems help the body to get rid of
liquid waste called urea. They also help to keep chemicals (such as potassium and sodium) and
water in balance. Urea is produced when foods containing protein (such as meat, poultry, and
certain vegetables) are broken down in the body.

As these muscles relax, urine exits the bladder through the urethra, and leaves the body through
an opening in the genital region that contains the urethra. When all the signals occur in the
correct order, normal urination occurs, removing urine from the body, this is urine elimination.

Another is that the most commonly occurring causes of oliguria are impaired renal blood flow,
renal disease, decreased fluid intake and dehydration, hypovolemic shock and other diseases and
disorders associated with excessive bodily fluid losses, and an anatomical urinary stricture.

Possible thing to happen if the urine is not removed from our body is that the kidneys filter
out the waste products and excess fluids from the body and dispose of them in the form of urine,
via the bladder. The clean blood flows back to the other parts of the body. If your kidneys did not
remove this waste, it would build up in the blood and cause damage to your body.

However, I am not sure if I am 100% confidentially with what I have learned about this topic.
There is some topic that very hard to understand, specially this unit. But, I have to ask it to my
prof. when there is time to conduct a synchronous.

I hope/plan to read/ study more this topic.

I found the activity making my learning easy because I learned some ideas from the topic.
However, there are some that I can’t understand.
I found the activity passing my assignment for this week difficult because of the poor internet
connection.

I hope there would be a change in in this kind of study because it’s hard to adjust even though
trimester is almost done.

Overall, I feel satisfied because even its very hard for me to adjust with this kind of learning, I’m
still here continuing my studies.