The nurse is making patient care assignments for the staff. Which elimination activity can the nurse delegate to nursing assistive personnel (NAP) for a patient with an indwelling urinary ca-theter?
a. Catheterizing the patient
b. Irrigating the catheter
c. Obtaining a urine culture
d. Providing catheter care
D
The nurse delegates care of an indwelling urinary catheter to the NAP because the NAP is trained to perform this task as part of hygienic care. The nurse catheterizes the patient, irrigates a urinary catheter, and obtains a urine specimen for a culture because each task is a sterile proce-dure performed by the nurse.
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