A woman calls the clinic and tells a nurse that she thinks she might be pregnant. She wants to use a home pregnancy test before going to the clinic, and asks the nurse how to use it correctly. What instruction should the nurse give?
1. Use a urine specimen just before going to bed at night.
2. Drink a lot of fluids and wait at least 4 hours before voiding and taking a specimen.
3. If the patient is diabetic, the urine pregnancy test will not be accurate.
4. Use the first voided specimen when first getting up in the morning.
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Rationale 1: Using a urine specimen just before going to bed at night is not the correct instruction.
Rationale 2: Drinking a lot of fluids and waiting at least 4 hours before voiding is not necessary, and is not the correct instruction.
Rationale 3: This information is not correct; diabetes does not affect the pregnancy test results.
Rationale 4: The patient should always use the first voided specimen in the morning, as it is more concentrated.
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