Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Anyone working in the Clinical Skills Lab must read the ‘CSL_I01 Induction’ and
agree to abide by the ‘CSL_I00 House Rules’ & ‘CSL_I02 Lab Area Rules’
Please inform a member of staff if equipment is damaged or about to run out.
Clinical Skills:
Open Gloving
Pick up the right glove with Work the fingers of your right Hold your thumb up and then
your left hand (if right hand into the glove leaving pull the cuff up and over. This
handed). Only touch the your thumb out. will prevent the glove from
cuff on what will be the bunching up and the outside
inside of the glove. surface touching your arm.
Leaving the cuff over your Grasp the left hand cuff with
thumb, pick up the second your right hand and, in one
glove by sliding your gloved movement, pull the glove over
fingers underneath the cuff as your hand and cuff of the
shown. gown – (see photos 5-7).
Clinical Skills:
Open Gloving
Ensure the cuff of the glove Now, with your gloved hand, lift
completely covers the cuff of the cuff of the right glove up and
the gown all the way around. over the cuff of the gown.
Don’t grasp the glove cuff
because you have already
touched the inner surface of the
glove with your bare hand,
therefore it is not sterile.
Work your fingers into the glove. Ensure the cuff of the glove Adjust the gloves as
completely covers the cuff of necessary to ensure they are
the gown all the way around. comfortable.