The nurse has a prescription to collect a 24-hour urine specimen from a client. The nurse should avoid which of the following errors in technique when implementing this procedure?
1. Do not remove urine from the collection container for other specimens.
2. Place the specimen in the appropriate container necessary for the test.
3. Ask the client to save a sample voided at the end of the collection time.
4. Ask the client to void, save the specimen, and note the start time.
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Rationale: Because the 24-hour urine test is a timed quantitative determination, the test must be started with an empty bladder. Therefore, the first urine is discarded. Fifteen minutes prior to the end of the collection time, the client should be asked to void, and this specimen is added to the collection. The urine sample should be placed in the appropriate container and may be refrigerated or placed on ice to prevent changes in the urine. Because this is a quantitative determination of constituents in the urine, no urine should be removed from the container.
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