Table of Contents
REQUIREMENTS #
- Laboratory form
- Specimen container
- Bedpan or urinal
- Disposable gloves
- Tissue
- Ballpoint pen
- Mackintosh and dressing towel
- Series of specimen bottles
STEPS #
- Confirm physician/doctor’s request against the specimen form with patient’s name, date and content of urinalysis (manual or electronic)
- Establish rapport with patient (Refer to steps)
- Explain the procedure (Refer to steps)
- Assemble requirements
- Label the containers or bottles with the following information:
- Name of patient
- Ward
- Specimen
- Examination required
- Time, date of commencement and completion of collection of specimen
- Choose a suitable time e.g. 9am to 9am the following day
- Review instructions with patient in the morning of commencement of collection
- Put labelled container in a suitable place near patient’s bed
- Ask patient to pass urine at the time collection begins and discard it
- Instruct patient to pass all subsequent urine into bedpan/urinal for the next 24 hours. This is poured into the labelled container
- Ask patient to pass urine at time the test ends and add this to collected urine
- Record total amount of urine collected on fluid chart and document in nurses’ notes (manual or electronic)
- Perform hand hygiene
- Dispatch specimen with appropriate laboratory form to laboratory