Urinalysis and Body Fluids 6th Edition by Majorie DiLorenzo, Susan Strasinger

Exercise 36

Urine specimen collection for drug testing requires the collector to do all of the following except:

A. Inspect the specimen color

B. Perform reagent strip testing

C. Read the specimen temperature

D. Fill out a chain-of-custody form

Step 1 of 2

Urine specimen collection form drug testing:

The urine specimen is collected by the collector from the donor (who is giving the specimen).

• To detect whether the urine has any drug substance in it.

• The procedure follows Chain of custody (COC).

Chain of custody:

• It is the documentation, which provides correct collection procedure and proper sample identification, from the collection of specimen to result of laboratory.

• The collector (person who gets sample from donor) will do all the procedures for collecting specimen until handling over the specimen bottles to appropriate personnel, collector notice the specimen color, temperature of specimen and fills the chain of custody form.

• Reagent strip test is not done in drug testing procedure.

Therefore, the collector will do all the procedures of COC in urine specimen collection for drug testing except “performing reagent strip testing”. Hence, the correct answer is option.