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1. Explain the procedure
2. Wash hands
3. Assemble the necessary equipment
4. Keep patient privacy
5. Position client: semi-Fowler's position, sitting on side of bed or chair, standing for
coughing and expectorating specimen
6. Apply clean disposable gloves
7. Provide the client with a specimen container, and instruct the client not to touch inside.
8. Instruct the client to take three to four slow deep breaths
9. Instruct the client to emphasize slow, full exhalation
10. After a series of deep breaths, ask the client to cough after full inhalation
11. Instruct the client to expectorate sputum directly into the specimen container
12. Have the client repeat coughing until an adequate amount of sputum has been collected
13. Comfort patient
14. Send specimen to the laboratory department with its request
15. Return used equipment and wash hand
16. Proper documentation

UNIT -FOURTEEN: MEDICAL AND SURGICAL POSITIONS

Objective: At the end of the unit, the trainees will be able to:
1. List the purposes of positioning
2. Place the patient in appropriate positions
3. Explain different types of positioning
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