Dominic Greene is an 8-month-old infant who is admitted to the health care facility for surgery later this afternoon. His preoperative orders include a urine specimen for urinalysis and an enema four hours before surgery. Catherine, Dominic’s mother, is with him at the bedside.
How would the nurse go about securing the urine specimen from Dominic?
Answer: To get the urine sample from Dominic, the nurse will first make sure that Dominic has been fed with sufficient fluid by his mother. Then she will softly wash the genitals of the infant and pat it dry with a cleaned and soft towel. After washing her hands with soap, she will fasten the bag around the child's genitals using the sticky strip. She can then check the bag after sometime and remove it by
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