Pediatric urine for culture

1. I am an RN responsible for clinical practice in 5 health centers spread over 4 counties. Some of our physicians will only accept cath urine specimens for culture. What is your standard?
   Thanks for your help.

2. Poll: What is your first choice for collection of pedi urine for culture in the office?

   • sterile puc

     0% 0

   • ccms

     66.67% 2

   • catheterization

     33.33% 1

   • supra-pubic

     0% 0

   3 Votes
3. 

   About Ben Thair RN

   Joined: Feb '01; Posts: 11
   RN

   3 Comments

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4. 
   May 1, '02

   To get a good midstream I believe that the nurse needs to help the child to be sure the child wipes before he or she goes and gets a midstream catch.
5. 
   May 1, '02

   I would go with the cath urine for children
6. 
   May 6, '02

   Are you taking about with suspected UTI or just a routine urinalysis? In the hospital, we rarely do a cathed urine (we really try to keep the hospitalization as untraumatic as possible). Of course, ours is usually for routine studies, not suspected UTI's. We rarely get a false-positive. We even clean and bag the babies, so no midstream catch.

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