GLOVING

In Healthcare Setting

3 Kinds of Gloves Used in

Healthcare Setting:
Surgical Gloves / Sterile Gloves
Single Use Examination Gloves
Utility or Heavy Duty Household

Gloves

Sterile Gloves

Single Use Clean Gloves

Surgical Gloves/ Sterile

Gloves
Used when there be contact with the

bloodstream or tissue under the skin

( surgical procedures or implants,
pelvic exams for women in labor,
minor / major surgery.
These gloves are the most expensive
kind.
Use them only when necessary

Single Use Examination

Gloves
Used when there will be contact with

intact mucous membrane ( IV

insertion, pelvic examination etc.) or
where the primary purpose is to
reduce the risk that the provider will
be expose to blood or other body
fluids ( when drawing blood).
Usually made of latex or vinyl and
are supplied in box or individual pack.
These gloves are clean but not
sterile.

Utility or Heavy Duty

Household Gloves
Used for handling contaminated

instruments and soiled linen.

Used for medical or chemical waste
Used for performing housekeeping
activities
These gloves are reusable after
nosing and washing.

Purpose
1. To prevent patients with impaired

resistance from becoming infected.

2. To prevent microorganisms from
entering the wound.
3. To provide sterile working field for
dressing changes.
4. To protect members of the health
team.

ASSESSMENT:

Assess the situation to

determine the necessity for

sterile gloves.
Check the patients chart
for possible latex allergy.

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NURSING DIAGNOSIS:
DETERMINE THE RELATED FACTORS FOR THE

NURSING DIAGNOSES BASED ON THE

PATIENTS CURRENT STATUS.

Risk for Infection

Ineffective Protection
Risk for Latex Allergy Response

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PROCEDURE:
Putting on Sterile Gloves and Removing Soiled Gloves:

ACTION
1. Identify the patient
and explain the
procedure
2. Perform Hand hygiene
3. Check the sterile
package is dry and
unopened. Also note for
the expiration date.
4. Place sterile glove
package on clean, dry
surface or at above your
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RATIONALE
It ensures the right patient
receives the
intervention. An
explanation encourages patient
cooperation
and
reduces
apprehension.
Hand hygiene deters
spread of microorganisms.

the

Moisture contaminates a sterile

package.
Expiration
date
indicates period that package
remains sterile.
Moisture could contaminate the
sterile gloves. Any sterile object
held
below
the
waist
is
considered contaminated.
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ACTION

RATIONALE

5. Open the outside

wrapper by peeling the
top layer back. Remove
inner package, handling
only the outside of it.

This maintains the sterility of

gloves in inner packet.

6. Place the inner

package on the work
surface with the labeled
cuff end closest to the
body.

It allows for ease of gloves

application.

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ACTION
7. Carefully open the
inner package. Fold
open the top flap, then
the bottom and sides.
Take care not to touch
the inner surface of the
package or the gloves.
8. With the thumb and
forefinger of the nondominant hand, grasp
the folded cuff of the
glove for dominant hand,
touching only the
exposed inside of the
glove.
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RATIONALE
The inner surface of the
package is considered sterile.
The outer 1 inch of border in the
inner package is considered
contaminated. The sterile gloves
are exposed with the cuff end
close.st to the nurse

Unsterile hand touches only

inside of glove. Outside remains
sterile.

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ACTION
9. Keeping the hands
above the waistline, lift
and hold the glove up
and off the inner
package with fingers
down. Be careful it does
not touch any unsterile
object.
10. Carefully insert
dominant hand palm into
glove and pull glove on.
Leave the cuff folded
until the opposite hand is
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gloved.

RATIONALE
Glove is contaminated if it
touches unsterile object.

Attempting to turn upward with

unsterile hand may result in
contamination

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ACTION
11. Hold the thumb of the
gloved hand outward.
Place the fingers of the
gloved hand inside the cuff
of the remaining glove. Lift
it from the wrapper, taking
care not to touch anything
with the gloves or hands.

12. Carefully insert nondominant hand into

glove. Pull the glove on,
taking care that the skin
does not touch any of the
outer surfaces of the
gloves.
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RATIONALE
Thumb is less likely to become
contaminated if held outward.
Sterile surface touching sterile
surface prevents contamination.

Sterile surface touching sterile

surface prevents contamination

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ACTION

RATIONALE

13. Slide the fingers of one

hand under the cuff of the
other and fully extend the
cuff down the arm,
touching only the sterile
outside of the glove.
Repeat for the remaining
hand

Sterile surface touching sterile

surface prevents contamination

14. Adjust gloves on both

hands if necessary,
touching only sterile
areas with other sterile
areas.
15. Continue with
procedure as indicated.

Sterile surface touching sterile

surface prevents contamination

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PROCEDURE:
Removing Soiled Gloves:

ACTION
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
remaining gloved hand.
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RATIONALE

Contaminated area
does not come in contact
with hands or wrists.

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

Contaminated area
does not come in contact
with hands or wrists.

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ACTION
18 . Discard gloves in

RATIONALE

Prevents
appropriate container transmission
of
and perform hand
microorganism. Hand
hygiene
hygiene deters the
spread
of
microorganism..

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STEP
1:

PULLING TOP LAYER OF

OUTSIDE WRAPPER BACK.
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STEP
2:

FOLDING BACK SIDE FLAPS

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STEP
3:

GRASPING CUFF OF GLOVE

FOR DOMINANT HAND
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STEP
4:

LIFTING GLOVE FROM

PACKAGE
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STEP
5:

INSERTING DOMINANT HAND

INTO GLOVE
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STEP
6:

SLIDING FINGERS UNDER

CUFF OF GLOVE FOR NONDOMINANT HAND
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STEP
7:

ADJUSTING GLOVES AS
NECESSARY
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REMOVING
SOILED
GLOVES

INVERTING GLOVE AS IT IS
REMOVED.
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REMOVING
SOILED
GLOVES

SLIDING FINGERS OF
UNGLOVED HAND INSIDE
REMAINING GLOVE.
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DISPOSED
PROPERLY

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