URINARY SYSTEM INFORMATICS PRACTICE TEST
By Francine T. Russell RN BSN MA
January 2008
Use your PDA to answer the following questions about the Urinary System. Use the
Anatomy & Physiology program to find the answers.
1.
Name the functional unit for the kidney.
2.
Describe how the right kidney and left kidney differ in location.
3.
What is the process of secretion and what substances are secreted?
4.
What hormone stimulates the collecting tubule to retain more water?
5.
Trace the steps of the emptying reflex of the bladder.
6.
How long is the urethra in a woman and how long is it in the male?
7.
What is another word for voiding?
9.
Identify the four functions of the urinary system.
10.
What role does aldosterone have in the urinary system?
11.
List five parts of the kidney.
12.
How many nephrons does each kidney contain?
13.
Trace the flow of urine from the nephron to the urethra.
14.
What hormone causes the kidneys to produce less urine?
15.
What is the function of the juxtaglomular apparatus and what hormone is produced
by it?
16.
In which structure of the urinary system does filtration occur and what substances
are filtered there?
20.
Which is larger, the afferent or efferent arteriole and why?
21.
Why are urinary tract infections more common in women?
22.
What are the two functions of the urethra in males?
23.
What 3 substances are reabsorbed in the proximal convoluted tubule?
24.
What parts of the nephron are located in the cortex and what parts are located in
the medulla?
25.
How much glomerular filtration normally occurs each minute? Each day?
26.
Using Taber’s Dictionary program in the PDA, define the following urinary
conditions:
1.
renal calculi
2.
urinary incontinence
3.
urinary suppression
4.
urinary retention
5.
anuria
6.
polyuria
7.
oliguria
8.
dysuria
9.
cystitis
10.
overactive bladder