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Collecting a Sputum Sample

Learn how to collect good quality sputum specimens while prioritizing patient and staff safety. Understand why two samples are essential for accurate diagnosis and follow proper procedures for collection, addressing patient anxieties along the way.

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Collecting a Sputum Sample

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  1. Collecting a Sputum Sample Good quality sputum specimens Patient and staff safety

  2. Preparing to get a sputum sample

  3. The nurse explains to Mercy why she needs a sputum sample

  4. Why are two sputum specimens needed? • Two samples help ensure patients found to be positive for TB are not missed. • Initial specimen – positive for 83-87% of all patients • Second specimen- positive for 10-12% of all patients

  5. Mercy rinses her mouth before the sputum sample is collected

  6. Picture 4 – Mercy and HCP are standing in front of a window

  7. Nurse demonstrates how to cough for a sputum

  8. Ensuring privacy and ventilation

  9. Infection control precautions: handling the specimen

  10. The specimen

  11. Addressing Mercy’s anxieties

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