Author Question: You need to collect a midstream urine specimen from a female resident. Which action is correct? ... (Read 63 times)

Tirant22 · **on:** Jul 16, 2018

You need to collect a midstream urine specimen from a female resident. Which action is correct?

a. Clean, disposable gloves are used.
b. The urethral area is cleaned from back to front.
c. The labia are kept separated until you col-lect 30 to 60 mL.
d. The labia are not separated during the void.

Question 2

Preservative from a 24-hour urine collection container splashed on your hand. You should do which of the following?

a. Wipe your hand off on your scrub top.
b. Soak your hand in warm soapy water for 20 minutes.
c. Tell the nurse what happened and check the MSDS.
d. Explain to the person's family what hap-pened.