ATI Specimen Collection

An assistive personnel (AP) is collecting a 24-hour urine specimen from a client. Which of the following statements by the AP indicates that the specimen collection will have to be restarted?

"The client just told me that they forgot to put the urine in the container."

A nurse obtains a capillary blood glucose result of 180 mg/dL from a client who has diabetes mellitus, Which of the following actions should the nurse take?

Administer insulin according to the patient's sliding scale orders.

A nurse is caring for a client who needs to collect a midstream urine specimen. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?

Have the client uninate a small amount of urine before starting the collection.

A nurse is caring for a client who has a suspected urinary tract infection (UTI). Which of the following urinalysis results should the nurse identify as a manifestation of a UTI?

Leukocyte esterase

A nurse is teaching a client about home collection of a stool specimen for fecal occult blood testing. Which of the following instructions should the nurse include?

Obtain specimens from three different stools.

A nurse is teaching a client about collecting stool specimens for fecal occult blood testing. Which of the following should the nurse instruct the client to avoid before and during the testing period?

Poultry (can cause a false positive)

A nurse is caring for a client who has a stage IIl pressure injury on the sacral area. Which of the following actions should the nurse take when obtaining a wound culture specimen from the pressure injury?

Rotate a sterile swab in the area of drainage.

A nurse caring for a group of clients in an ambulatory care clinic is collecting urine for several prescribed diagnostic tests. For which of the following tests is a random sample voided into a clean cup appropriate?

Routine urinalysis

A nurse is collecting a blood specimen for culture from a client. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?

Rub the client's arm at the selected site prior to venipuncture.

A nurse caring for a client who has diabetes mellitus is having difficulty obtaining a capillary fingerstick blood sample for point-of-care blood glucose testing. Which of the following actions should the nurse take to help increase blood flow to the client's finger?

Wrap the finger in a warm cloth.