Specimen Collection

Read the illustrated guides to Specimen collection on ClinicalSkills.net.

You will need to be logged into ClinicalSkills.net to use these pages: Go to https://shu.app.clinicalskills.net, enter your user name and password. You must have set up your account to do this. For further information on how to login to your ClinicalSkills.net account please click here: How to Login to ClinicalSkills.net 

Once logged in to your account, click on Guides in the main Dashboard area and search for the following guides:

Urine

• Collecting a mid stream specimen of urine

• Catheter specimen of urine 

• Urine testing: Observation  

• Urine testing: Urinalysis 

Stool

• Stool specimen collection  

• Stool specimen assessment  

Sputum

• Collecting and assessing a sputum specimen 

Child nursing specific guides:

• Collecting a specimen of urine

Click on the button below to navigate to the 'Assessments' area of ClinicalSkills.net. Please make sure you're logged into ClinicalSkills.net already, otherwise you may not be able to open and take the test. Once you have reached the 'Assessments' area, select 'Standard Assessments' and then click on the test called 'Specmen Collection' to begin. You will need to score 80% or more to pass. Make sure you've read the ClinicalSkills.net procedures thoroughly before taking the test as many of the answers will be found within there! 

From the ClinicalSkills.net 'Guides' area, once you have opened the guide you wish to find a checklist for, you can also easily access the corresponding step-by-step checklist for that procedure by following these instructions:

• Open the correct guide that you want to find the checklist for.

• Click the option 'Get the Guide Checklist' from the tabs at the top of the page.

• This will open the checklist, allowing you to either complete this digitally online whilst logged into clinicalskills.net, or alternatively to print out and complete this as a hard copy.

Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Procedures (9th Edition): Equipment used for transportation - Page 379- 382 & 434-443& 514

ProQuest Ebook Central - Reader