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The clinic nurse has obtained a throat culture specimen from a client in whom a throat infection is suspected. The nurse calls the laboratory to have the specimen picked up and is told that the laboratory is short staffed and the laboratory assistant will pick up the specimen in 2 hours. Which is the appropriate nursing action? 1.Refrigerate the specimen. 2.Tell the client to return in 1 hour for a repeat throat culture. 3.Contact the health care provider (HCP) who prescribed the specimen. 4.Tell the laboratory that someone needs to pick up the specimen immediately.

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