Answer: 1 The appropriate site to obtain a urine specimen for a patient with an indwelling catheter is the injection port. The nurse should clean the injection port cap of the catheter drainage tubing with appropriate antiseptic attach a sterile 5-mL syringe into the port and aspirate the quantity desired. The nurse should apply a clamp to the drainage tubing distal to the injection port not obtain the specimen from this site. Urine in the bedside drainage bag is not an appropriate sample as the urine in the bag may have been there too long; thus a clean sample cannot be obtained from the bag. The client's urine will be contained in the indwelling catheter; there will be no urine at the insertion site.
A physician orders a urinalysis for a client with an indwelling catheter. To ensure that an appropriate specimen is obtained the nurse wou...