Peter is a student nurse who is caring for Mr. Grey, a patient who has been admitted to the medical unit of the hospital with a fever and malaise. The health care provider has ordered a uri-nalysis on Mr. Grey
To collect the urine specimen, Peter should: A. obtain the specimen from a straight catheter.
B. use sterile gloves to cleanse the penis and collect the specimen in a sterile cup.
C. ask Mr. Grey to void into a cup.
D. instruct Mr. Grey to cleanse his penis, begin his stream, and then void into a ster-ile cup.
C
A simple urinalysis does not require a sterile urine specimen or sample. The laboratory performs urinalysis on a routine or clean-voided specimen or on a specimen obtained from a catheter.
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