Skill Checklists for Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills: A Nursing Process Approach

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Skill Checklists for Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills:
A Nursing Process Approach, 3rd edition

Name Date

Unit Position

Instructor/Evaluator: Position

SKILL 7-5

Removing Contact Lenses

Goal:The lenses are removed without trauma to the eye and

stored safely. Comments

1. Perform hand hygiene and put on PPE, if indicated.


2. Identify the patient. Explain the procedure to the patient.


3. Assemble equipment on overbed table within reach.


4. Close curtains around bed and close the door to the room,
   if possible.


5. Assist patient to supine position. Elevate bed. Lower side
   rail closest to you.


6. If containers are not already labeled, do so now. Place
   5 mL of normal saline in each container.


7. Put on gloves. Remove soft contact lens:
   a. Have the patient look forward. Retract the lower lid
   with one hand. Using the pad of the index finger of the
   other hand, move the lens down to the sclera.
   b. Using the pads of the thumb and index finger, grasp the
   lens with a gentle pinching motion and remove.
   (See the Skill Variation in your skills book for figures
   showing other techniques for removing both hard and
   soft lenses.)


8. Place the first lens in its designated cup in the storage case
   before removing the second lens.


9. Repeat actions to remove other contact lens.


10. If patient is awake and has glasses at bedside, offer patient
    glasses.


11. Remove equipment and return patient to a position of
    comfort. Remove your gloves. Raise side rail and lower
    bed.


12. Remove additional PPE, if used. Perform hand hygiene.

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