Donning Closed Gloves

1. Peel open the outer pack from the corners. The inner pack is
sterile.
Gripping it through your gown, open it to display the gloves.

2. With your gown covering your fingers, use your

right hand to remove the left glove. Hold your left
hand palm up, fingers straight. Lay the glove on your left wrist, and
grip the cuff with your left thumb.

3. Place your right thumb inside the top cuff edge.

Make a fist with your right hand and stretch the glove
over your left fingertips.

4. Keeping your left fingers straight, pull down the

glove.

5. Repeat the above procedure to don the other

glove, that is: use your gloved left hand to lay the
right glove on your right wrist. Slide your left thumb inside the top of
the cuff, make a fist, and stretch the cuff over your right fingertips.
Pull down the sleeve and glove together.

Donning open Gloves

1. Pick up the cuff of the fight glove with your left hand. Slide your
right hand into
the glove until you have a snug fit over the thumb joint and
knuckles.

Your bare left hand should only touch the folded cuff - the rest of the
glove remains sterile.
 2. Slide your right fingertips into the folded cuff of the
left glove. Pull out the glove and fit your right hand
into it.

3. Unfold the cuffs down over your gown sleeves.

Make sure your gloved fingertips do not touch your bare forearms or
wrists.

Glove Removal
The key to removing both sterile and non-sterile gloves is
"Dirty to Dirty - Clean to Clean",

that is, contaminated surfaces only touch other contaminated surfaces:

your bare hand,
which is clean, touches only clean areas inside the other glove.

1. Take hold of the first glove at the wrist.

2. Fold it over and peel it back, turning it inside out as

it goes. Once the glove is off, hold it with your gloved
hand.

3. To remove the other glove, place your bare fingers

inside the cuff without touching the glove exterior.
Peel the glove off from the inside, turning it inside out
as it goes. Use it to envelope the other glove.

How to put on Sterile Gloves

Wearing sterile gloves is part of aseptic hand hygiene, since the
hands can never be sterile

Preparation for putting on surgical gloves

Gloves are cuffed to make it easier to put them on without contaminating
them. When putting on sterile gloves, remember that the first glove should
be picked up by the cuff only. The second glove should then be touched
only by the other sterile glove.

Step 1
Prepare a large, clean, dry area for opening the package of gloves. Either
open the outer glove package and then perform a surgical scrub or
perform a surgical scrub and ask someone else to open the package of
gloves for you.

Step 2
Open the inner glove wrapper, exposing the cuffed gloves with the palms
up.

Step 3
Pick up the first glove by the cuff, touching only the inside portion of the
cuff (the inside is the side that will be touching your skin when the glove is
on).

Step 4
While holding the cuff in one hand, slip your other hand into the glove.
(Pointing the fingers of the glove toward the floor will keep the fingers
open.) Be careful not to touch anything, and hold the gloves above your
waist level.

NOTE: If the first glove is not fitted correctly, wait to make any adjustment
until the second glove is on. Then use the sterile fingers of one glove to
adjust the sterile portion of the other glove.

Step 5
Pick up the second glove by sliding the fingers of the gloved hand under
the cuff of the second glove. Be careful not to contaminate the gloved
hand with the ungloved hand as the second glove is being put on.
Step 6
Put the second glove on the ungloved hand by maintaining a steady pull
through the cuff.

Step 7
Adjust the glove fingers until the gloves fit comfortably.

Gloves play a dual role in the healthcare environment

- they act as a barrier to give personal protection and help

prevent the transmission of infection.

Key Points

• Only wear gloves when necessary.

• Gloves should be worn when in direct contact with blood, body
fluids, nonintact skin or mucous membranes.
• Glove usage is not a substitute for thorough hand hygiene.
• Gloves should be changed after every task intended or episode of
patient care.
• Hands should be washed thoroughly before donning gloves and
after gloves have been removed.
• It is important to ensure that gloves fit correctly.
• Sterile surgeons gloves are expensive and should not be used for
noninvasive aseptic procedures where sterile examination gloves
would be adequate.
• Vinyl gloves are not a satisfactory substitute for latex gloves for
contact with blood or blood-stained body fluids.
• Gloves should not be washed, or decontaminated using alcohol
rubs/gels
• Powdered gloves must not be used within the health care
setting.Individuals who are sensitised to natural rubber latex
proteins and/orother chemicals in gloves need to be tested for
latex allergies.