GLOVING

Gloves are a type of personal protective equipment (PPE). Other types of

PPE are gowns, masks, shoes and head cover.

Gloves create a barrier between germs and your hands. Wearing gloves in
the hospital helps prevent the spread of germs. 

Purpose of Gloves

Wearing gloves helps protect both patients and health care workers from infection.

When to Wear Gloves

 Gloves help keep your hands clean and lessen your chance of getting germs that can make you sick.
 Wear gloves every time you touch blood, bodily fluids, bodily tissues, mucous membranes, or broken
skin. You should wear gloves for this sort of contact, even if a patient seems healthy and has no signs of
any germs.
 

Choose the Right Gloves

 Containers of disposable gloves should be available in any room or area where patient care takes place.
 Gloves come in different sizes, so make sure you choose the right size for a good fit.
 If the gloves are too big, it is hard to hold objects and easier for germs to get inside your gloves.
 Gloves that are too small are more likely to rip.
 Some cleaning and care procedures require sterile or surgical gloves. Sterile means "free from germs."
These gloves come in numbered sizes (5.5 to 9). Know your size ahead of time.
 If you will be handling chemicals, check the material safety data sheet to see what kind of gloves you
will need.

 
 DO NOT use oil-based hand creams or lotions unless they are approved for use with latex gloves.
 If you have a latex allergy, use non-latex gloves and avoid contact with other products that contain latex.

PROCEDURE:                                               
 1. Gather correct supplies for the procedure.
2. Remove all jewelry. No artificial nails, extenders, or chipped nail polish should be worn.
Rationale: jewelry, artificial nails, extenders, and chipped nail polish can harbor additional
microorganisms.                                                                          

3. Wash hands properly

Rationale: Decreases the bacterial count on hands and prevents contamination of sterile
equipment.                                                                      

4. Clean surface to open sterile field and raise its height to waist level.
Rationale: All sterile items must be kept above waist
level.                                                                           

5. Inspect packaging for sterility.

Rationale: All sterile items must be checked for sterility prior to use. Always examine sterile glove
packaging for expiry date, intactness, and tears. The package should be dry. Sterile gloves have
outer packaging that must be removed prior to starting the procedure of applying sterile
gloves.                                                                              

6. Open sterile packaging by peeling open the top seam and pulling down.
Rationale: Open sterile packaging without contaminating inner package.

7. place inner package on working surface and open up to see right and left gloves. Start with dominant
hand first. Open packaging.
Rationale: Prepares sterile surface to perform sterile application of
gloves                                                                            

8. Pick up glove for dominant hand by touching the inside cuff of the glove. Do not touch the outside of the
glove. Pull glove completely over dominant hand
9. Insert gloved hand into the cuff of the remaining glove. Pull remaining glove on non-dominant hand and
insert fingers. Adjust gloves if necessary.
10. Once gloves are on, interlock gloved hands and keep at least six inches away from clothing, keeping
hands above waist level and below the shoulders.
Rationale: This step prevents the accidental touching of non-sterile objects or the front of the
gown.                                                                       
REMOVING OF GLOVES

1. To remove gloves, grasp the outside of the cuff or palm of glove and gently pull the glove off, turning it
inside out and placing it into gloved hand
2. Take ungloved hand, place fingers inside the other glove, and pull glove off inside out.
3. Disposed used gloves properly
4. Wash hands properly

DONNING AND REMOVING STERILE GLOVES

Equipment Needed
 Package of proper-sized sterile gloves
Estimated time to complete the skill: 5 minutes
PROCEDURE RATIONALE
1. Assess the package of the glove. Is it intact?
Is it wet or otherwise contaminated? Is it out of Assess the sterility of the glove.
date?
2. Assess the local environment. Is there an
area suitable for opening the package and
A flat, clear workspace is necessary to
applying the gloves? Is it dry? Is it reasonably
successfully carry out the procedure.
stable and horizontal? Are there obvious
airborne contaminants?
3. Wash hands and dry carefully. Prevents transmission of microorganism.
4. Read the manufacturer’s instruction on the
Different manufacturer’s package gloves
package of sterile gloves. Remove the outer
differently; the instructions will tell you how to
wrapper from the package. Place the inner
properly open to avoid contamination of the
wrapper onto clean, dry surface. Surface should
inner wrapper; any moisture on the surface will
be at or above waist-high level. Open inner
contaminate the gloves.
wrapper to expose glove.
5. Identify right and left hand: glove dominant Dominant hand should facilitate motor dexterity
hand first. during gloving.
6. Grasp the 2-inch (5cm) wide cuff with the
Maintains sterility of the outer surfaces of the
thumb and first two fingers of the non-dominant
sterile glove.
hand, touching only the cuff.
7. Gently pull the glove over the dominant hand,
Prevents tearing the glove material; guiding the
making sure the thumb and fingers fit into the
fingers into proper places facilitates gloving.
proper spaces of the glove.
8. With the gloved dominant hand, slip your
fingers under the cuff of the other glove, gloved
Cuff protects gloved fingers, maintaining sterility.
thumb abducted, making sure it does not touch
any part on your nondominant hand.
9. Gently slip the glove onto your non-dominant
hand, making sure the fingers slip into the Contact is made with two sterile gloves.
proper spaces. Adjust gloves if necessary.
10. With gloved hands, interlock fingers to fit the
gloves onto each finger. Keep at least six inches
Promotes proper fit over the fingers.
away from clothing, keeping hands above waist
level and below the shoulders.
If the gloves are soiled, remove by turning inside
out as follows:
11. Slip gloved fingers of the dominant hand Contact is made with two sterile gloves.
under the cuff of the opposite hand or grasp the
outer part of the glove at the wrist if there is no
cuff.
12. Pull the glove down to the fingers, exposing Frees the thumb for the next step.
the thumb.
13. Slip the uncovered thumb into the opposite
glove at the wrist allowing only the glove
Contact is made with two sterile gloves.
covered fingers of the hand to touch the soiled
glove.
14. Pull the glove down over the dominant hand Removes glove without contact with soiled
almost to the fingertips and slip the glove on to
the other hand. surfaces.

15. With the dominant hand touching only the

inside of the other glove, pull the glove over the
Exposes only the clean surface of the gloves.
dominant hand so that only the inside (clean
surface) is exposed.
16. Dispose of soiled gloves according to
Prevents the transfer of microorganisms.
institutional policy and wash hands.