CNA Skill 12

SKILL 12: MEASURES AND RECORDS URINARY OUTPUT

1. Introduce yourself and explain the procedure the patient.
2. Perform hand hygiene
3. Put on clean gloves
4. Pour the liquid in the bedpan into a measuring container.
5. Rinse the bedpan and empty the water into the toilet.
6. Measure the amount of urine at the eye level with the container on flat surface
7. Empty the urine into the toilet.
8. Rinse the measuring container with water and empty it to the toilet
9. Remove gloves
10. Record the volume within plus or minus 25 mL of the actual volume
11. Perform hand hygiene.