A patient is to collect a 24 hour urine specimen from 8 AM today to 8 AM tomorrow. What should be included in the nurse's instructions to the patient?
a. Collect all your urine between 8 AM today and 8 AM tomorrow.
b. At 8 AM today, void into the container, collect all the urine until 8 AM tomorrow, then void and discard.
c. Void at 8 AM today and discard, collect all your urine until 8 AM tomorrow when you should void and discard.
d. Void at 8 AM today and discard, collect all your urine until 8 AM tomorrow when you should empty your bladder completely and save the specimen.
D
The nurse should provide the patient with the following instructions: void and discard the specimen at the beginning of the collection; the 24 hour collection begins after the first discarded urine; save all the urine from that time on until the following day; at the collection ending time, void one last time and save the specimen.
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