If No Luck Trying to Straight Cath, Obtain Urine Sample from the Wet Pad?

I've done this in peds, as a student. The nurse gave me instructions on how to do it, which my clinical instructor verified. We had to do frequent UA on the patient, no cultures or anything. I had to put cotton balls in his diaper, and then put the cotton balls in a syringe and squeeze the urine out onto the strip for the machine. Apparently you can't just use the diaper because the absorbent stuff in the diaper interferes with the results. For this patient, they were worried about a tumor/neuro problem, and were mostly worried about making sure that his renal function wasn't being impaired as a result, so really it was just for trending, I suppose.

That's curious to me. I worked at a Children's Hospital in the old days and I've never seen anyone get a specimen that way. Especially since we used cloth diapers on most of the babies back in the day. A point I find amusing. The only babies other than NICU we used disposables were strict I&O, we weighed the diapers, then weighed them again after the child voided. Where and how did you see this done?

I'm sorry but I wouldn't do it. Its not sterile and I don't think its good practice.

!Chris