Which does the nurse implement to cleanse a male client before insertion of a urinary catheter?
1. Keep the foreskin over the penis tip.
2. Use long strokes down the penis' shaft.
3. Hold penis at a right angle to the body.
4. Hold the cotton balls in dominant hand.
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3. The nurse uses the nondominant hand to hold the penis at a right angle to the body for cleansing so that the dominant hand remains sterile to insert the catheter.
1. The nurse retracts the foreskin during cleansing because the meatus is covered par-tially by the foreskin; the only method of cleansing the meatus is to retract the fo-reskin.
2. Cleansing the penis' shaft is unnecessary.
4. The cotton balls remain on the sterile field until needed by the nurse.
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