A Patient Has Just Completed Her Office Visit and Was

Essay

A patient has just completed her office visit and was told to collect a 24-hour urine specimen for creatinine. Caitlin, the medical assistant, is asked to provide her with the appropriate container and instructions for the collection procedure. Caitlin explains that the patient needs to start the collection in the morning immediately after the first morning void. She tells the patient that she must collect all the urine for the next 24 hours, including the following morning void, as long as it is within the 24-hour period. She also tells the patient that she needs to document the time that she started and ended the collection on the urine container, and Caitlin added the name of the patient and her patient identification number to the container before she left.Did Caitlin provide adequate instructions to the patient? Is there anything that could have been added?