Specimen Required

Clean-voided, midstream urine  (Urine, Clean catch):

    Females:

1.  Wash your hands with soap and water before beginning collection.

2.  Clean genital area by spreading the labia and washing the vulva with supplied cleansing wipes from front to back.

3.  Keep the labia separated and urine a small amount of urine into the toilet, then use the sterile cup the collect the "midstream" urine.

4.  Finish urinating into the toilet.

5.  Replace cap on the cup and secure.

    Males:

1.  Wash your hands with soap and water before collection.

2.  Using the cleansing wipes provided, cleanse the head of the penis in a circular motion with the first towelette.  If patient is uncircumcised, retract the foreskin before cleansing.

3.  Repeat this step with the second cleansing wipe.

4.  Keeping the foreskin retracted, urinate a small amount of urine into the toilet, then using the cup collected the "midstream" urine.

5.  Finish urinating into the toilet

6.  Replace the cap and secure tightly

Catheterized Urine:

  Straight cath:  Performed by physician or trained health professional

  -Use aesptic technique.  Discard the first 15-30 ml of urine, then collect next flow of urine for culture

   Foley Catheter:

  -Using a needle and syringe, collec the urine through the catheter port after cleaning with alcohol.  

  -Alternatively, collect the sample directly into a vacutainer tube (without additives) using a vacutainer holder and needle.

***DO NOT SEND URINE OBTAINED FROM THE CATHETER BAG**

Suprapubic:

  -To be performed by physician or trained medical professional

  -Bladder should be full and palpable before aspiration

  -Save and disinfec the skin over the bladder

  -Make a small lancet wound through the epidermis and above the pubis symphysis

  -Aspirate using a needle and syringe.  Dispense the collected urine into a sterile cup 

Ileal conduit or Urostomy:

  -Remove the external device

  -Cleanse the stoma with 70% alcohol, followed by iodine, then followed by alcohol.

  -Insert a double catheter into the cleansed stoma to a depth beyond the fascial level and collect the urine.

Pediatric "Pedi-bag" or "U-bag" :

  -Submit in sterile container within 2 hours of collection.

-Label cup with patient name (first and last) or other unique identifier, patient hospital
identification number,  date and time of collection, collector initials, urine source, and test(s) being
ordered.
-Promptly forward specimen to laboratory at ambient temperature.