Mrs. Baconer has recently traveled to an undeveloped country and now has severe abdominal cramping and diarrhea. Her health care provider has ordered a stool specimen to test for pathogens and parasites. As her nursing assistant, how do you get a stool specimen into the specimen container?
A. Tip the bedpan to the side and drop the feces from the bedpan into the specimen container.
B. Wearing gloves, use a wooden tongue blade to remove the feces from the bedpan and transfer it to the container.
C. Ask the patient to hold the specimen container and to defecate into it instead of into the bedpan.
D. Use the specimen container as a scoop for transferring the feces from the bedpan into the container.
Answer: B
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