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

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SKILL 4-6

Putting on Sterile Gloves and Removing

Soiled Gloves (Continued)

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14.Adjust gloves on both hands if necessary, touching only

sterile areas with other sterile areas.

15. Continue with procedure as indicated.

Removing Soiled Gloves

16. Use dominant hand to grasp the opposite glove near cuff
    end on the outside exposed area. Remove it by pulling it
    off, inverting it as it is pulled, keeping the contaminated
    area on the inside. Hold the removed glove in the remain-
    ing gloved hand.


17. Slide fingers of ungloved hand between the remaining
    glove and the wrist. Take care to avoid touching the
    outside surface of the glove.Remove it by pulling it off,
    inverting it as it is pulled, keeping the contaminated area
    on the inside, and securing the first glove inside the second.


18. Discard gloves in appropriate container. Remove
    additional PPE, if used. Perform hand hygiene.

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