CEHE MED122 Week 3 Assignment Latest 2020 June

MED122 Medical Asepsis

Week  3 Assignment

Using PPE and Removing Gloves

Learning Objectives Covered:

LO 01.04 – Outline the 7 steps for safely removing contaminated gloves

LO 01.05 – Identify proper handwashing techniques for medical and surgical situations.

Career Relevancy

No matter where you end up working, you’ll regularly find that you’re using personal protective gear to protect yourself from pathogens and harmful substances. And you’ll likely wear gloves more than any other type of gear. Glove use does not replace hand hygiene—it augments it, and works as an added means of infection prevention. They are not made for reuse, so you will be using these quite often. You’ll need to understand the purposes and practices related to glove use in order to use gloves properly, and in order to use them appropriately with other types of PPE and techniques of asepsis. In particular, you must understand how to safely remove gloves that are soiled to prevent whatever germs are present from spreading to your body or others.

Background taking off gloves

Luca, now back at work, is getting pulled in many different directions. He has a surgery to prepare for, and then he’ll be in the OR helping the surgeons. Immediately afterward, he has to help take the vitals for a middle-aged patient who’s complaining of nausea and vomiting. And there isn’t much time in between.

Now that he’s up to speed on what personal protective equipment, or PPE, to use for various situations, he feels ready to jump into these different exams and procedures. After all, with Penny’s guidance and the help of his own research, he now knows how to put on, or don, several different kinds of protective equipment. He gets ready for surgery, performs his duties, and comes out of the OR.

Eager to go meet with his next patient, Luca begins to hastily remove his gloves. Penny immediately stops him, explaining that just as there are specific methods of donning gloves and other PPE, there are also specific methods of doffing, or removing, gloves. If he removes the gloves improperly or poorly, he can risk contaminating himself and others.

Penny puts on a pair of gloves and walks him through the 7 steps of the glove removal process:

She first grips the outside of one glove, right at the wrist. She doesn’t touch her skin.

She then peels the glove carefully away from her body, letting it roll inside out.

She puts the removed glove in her other hand and holds it.

Next, she peels off the other glove by carefully inserting her finger inside the glove at the wrist.

She then turns the second glove inside out while rolling it away from her wrist. She leaves the first glove inside the second.

She then disposes of the gloves in the appropriate disposal container. These gloves will not be reused.

She immediately washes her hands.

Luca tries the method himself and does it perfectly. But he’s still curious about these various PPE removal procedures—they feel like important procedures to know about. He does a little more research after work and discovers this video (1:49 min).

Resources and References

Donning and Doffing Exam Gloves. (2018, May 14). MNhealth. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/xueBYfElFEg