A newly diagnosed patient with diabetes is being taught the procedure for obtaining a blood glucose specimen. What information should the nurse include in patient teaching about the pro-cedure for capillary puncture?
a. Puncture the center of the fingertip.
b. Allow the alcohol to dry completely.
c. Hold the finger upright for the puncture.
d. Squeeze the finger to increase blood flow.
B
The nurse instructs the patient to allow the alcohol or other antiseptic time to dry before punc-turing the skin because the drying kills the microorganisms and the needle can carry alcohol into the puncture, increase the pain, and skew the results. The least painful sites to puncture the fin-gertip are on the sides. The patient should be told to hold the finger in a dependent position be-fore puncturing to engorge the fingertip with blood. Squeezing the finger has the potential to skew the results of the testing.
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