The nurse cares for a client during a 24-hour urine specimen collection. Several hours later, the client tells the nurse that she has started to menstruate. Which action by the nurse is MOST appropriate? 1. Inform the health care provider that the client is menstruating. 2. Send the urine collected prior to the onset of the client's menstruation to the lab. 3. Insert an indwelling bladder catheter during the remainder of the collection period. 4. Request a separate urine collection container from the laboratory to be used during the remainder of the urine collection period.

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