In Your Office, Patients Collect Samples Using the Patient Restroom

question 76

Multiple Choice

In your office, patients collect samples using the patient restroom and leave the samples on the back of the toilet. You send April into the restroom after giving her the collection kit, including three towelettes, and instructing her on how to perform a clean-catch midstream urine specimen. After she returns to the exam room and you go into the restroom to collect the specimen, you notice the three towelette packages, unopened, in the trashcan. What should you do?

• A) Process the urine sample as usual; the towelettes are not important.
• B) Let April know that you know she did not follow instructions, but proceed to process the sample.
• C) Process the urine sample as usual, but make a note in April's record that this is not a clean-catch sample.
• D) Explain the instructions again and send April back to the restroom to produce another sample.
• E) Inform the physician or your supervisor and ask whether you should process the sample.

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Definitions:

External Anal Sphincter

Ring of striated muscular fibers surrounding the anus.

Inferior Oblique

A muscle in the orbit of the eye that controls elevation of the eyeball and helps in movements such as looking upward.

Lateral Rectus

A muscle in the eye that controls lateral movement of the eyeball, moving it away from the midline.

Superior Oblique

A cranial nerve-controlled muscle in the eye that helps in rotating the eye downwards and outwards.