First, how to use medical gloves correctly.

Appropriate types and specifications should be selected according to the needs of different operations.

1. Wear cleaning gloves when touching patients' blood, body fluids, secretions, excreta, vomit and contaminated materials.

2. Wear sterile gloves when performing aseptic operations such as surgery or when touching the patient's damaged skin or mucous membranes.

Gloves should be removed in the following cases

1. Gloves are broken or suspected to be broken.

2. After contact with blood, body fluids, damaged skin and mucous membranes, after completion of the operation.

3. After contact with the patient and the patient's surroundings or contaminated body parts.

Second, the use of medical gloves

How to wear sterile gloves:

1. Choose the right size sterile gloves;

2. Check the expiration date on the glove package;

3. Check whether the outer packaging is tight;

4. Wash hands or disinfect surgical hands before wearing sterile gloves;

5. Open the glove bag, lift the opening of the pocket with one hand, hold the folding part of the glove (the inside of the glove) with the other hand, and take out the glove; Put it on with five fingers;

6. Lift the mouth of the other bag in the same way, insert the finger wearing the sterile glove into the inner side of the other glove, put the glove on, and then put the glove on the flip side, put your hands together, and adjust the position of the glove.

How to remove sterile gloves:

1. Pinch the edge of the contaminated surface of the other glove with the gloved hand and remove the glove;

2. Hold the removed glove with the gloved hand, pinch the edge of the cleaning side (inner side) of the other glove with the gloved hand, and remove the glove;

3. Hold the inside of the gloves with your hands and throw them into the medical waste container;

4. Wash hands after removing sterile gloves.

Iii. Precautions for wearing medical gloves

1. Gloves are not a substitute for hand hygiene.

2. Perform hand hygiene before wearing sterile gloves and after removing gloves.

3. When gloves are damaged, perform hand hygiene before replacing them with new ones.

4. Do not wear the same pair of gloves when nursing or treating more than one patient.

5. When wearing gloves for nursing or diagnostic procedures, gloves should be changed when moving from contaminated areas (including incomplete skin, mucous membranes, or implanted medical devices) to clean areas on the same patient.

Common mistakes of medical gloves

1. Touch the clean side (inner side) of the gloves when wearing sterile gloves.

2. Wear gloves to answer the phone, write, type, etc.

2. Gloves are not changed between different patients.

3. Do not wash hands before putting on gloves and after taking off gloves.