The nursing assistant reports that while pouring urine into a 24-hour urine container, some urine splashed the nursing assistant's hand. Which action by the nurse is best?
a. Ask the assistant if he or she washed the hands afterward.
b. Call the laboratory to see if the container has preservative in it.
c. Have the assistant fill out an incident re-port.
d. Send the assistant to Employee Health right away.
A
For safety, the nurse should find out if the assistant washed his or her hands. The nursing assis-tant should do this for two reasons. First, it is part of Standard Precautions to wash hands after client care. Second, if the container did have preservative in it, this would wash it away. The preservative may be caustic to the skin. The nurse can call the laboratory while the assistant is washing hands if needed. The nursing assistant would then need to fill out an incident or expo-sure report and may or may not need to go to Employee Health. The nursing assistant also needs further education on Standard Precautions, which include wearing gloves.
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