Time Saving Hints for a Busy Nurse

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVI, Issue 4, 1 October 1927, Page 191

Time Saving Hints for a Busy Nurse

To collect a urine specimen from a male child, take a piece of adhesive plaster about 1-J to 2 inches square, make hole m centre just large enough to pass a urine test tube through, attach plaster to skin, having first passed the penis into tube.

To collect a specimen from a female child a small glass cup, such as we have all seen for holding seed m a bird cage, was used : m fact, a supply of these was

kept m the wards. As the glass round edge of cup was sometimes rough, the opening was always bound with a 1-inch strip of adhesive plaster, then with two more strips it is quite simple to attach this glass to the vulva and so collect the specimen required. Having vivid memories of the precious minutes spent m holding a child over a chamber when doing duty m a children's ward, I felt I must pass this method on to you all.