Use of gloves
For a nurse, the use of gloves is a must. Carrying out manipulations, patient care is carried out only in gloves according to existing standards.
It should be remembered that it is unacceptable to use the same gloves for manipulation or care of two or more patients. Even if gloved hands are washed and disinfected. Treatment of gloves with alcohol-containing solutions is also unacceptable due to the destruction of the protective layer.
After carrying out manipulations for the care of one patient, gloves should be removed and immersed in a disinfectant solution for disinfection. With the subsequent disposal of disposable products.
Rules for putting on sterile gloves
- Wash your hands , treat them with an antiseptic, dry completely.
- Take sterile tweezers, get them gloves from the factory packaging or bix. Lay the gloves out on a sterile table, palm side up.
- Move the edges of the gloves with sterile tweezers in the form of a cuff. With the thumb and forefinger of the left hand, grab the turned edge from the inside and pull the glove over the right hand.
- With the fingers of the right hand in a glove, bring the second glove under the lapel and pull it over the left hand.
- Bend the folded edges of the gloves sequentially on both hands. The edges of the gloves should completely cover the cuffs of the sterile gown.
Rules for removing medical gloves
If gloves are contaminated with blood or other body fluids, before removing them, they should be treated with a cloth moistened with a disinfectant solution.
- With the fingers of the right hand in a glove, grab the edge of the glove on the outside of the left hand. Remove the glove from the left hand with a vigorous movement, turning it inside out.
- Insert the thumb of the left hand (already without a glove) inside the glove on the right hand. Remove the glove from the right hand with a vigorous movement, also turning it inside out.
- After use, immerse gloves in a container with a disinfectant solution.
- Wash and sanitize hands.
The nurse should be able to choose the use of gloves , taking into account the particular manipulation and information about the infection of the patient (sterile surgical, non-sterile diagnostic, single use, increased risk).
