A nurse collaborates with an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP)to provide care for a client who is prescribed a 24-hour urine specimen collection.Which statement should the nurse include when delegating this activity to the UAP?

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The collection of a 24-hour urine specimen is often delegated to a UAP.The nurse must ensure that the UAP understands the proper process for collecting the urine.The 24-hour urine collection specimen is started after the client's first urination.The first urine specimen is discarded because there is no way to know how long it has been in the bladder,but the time of the client's first void is noted.The client adds all urine voided after that first discarded specimen during the next 24 hours.When the 24-hour mark is reached,the client voids one last time and adds this specimen to the collection.The preservative,if used,must be added to the container at the beginning of the collection.All urine samples need to be collected for the test results to be accurate.

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