Personal Protective Equipment’s

      PERSONAL PROTECTIVIE EQUIPMENTS TYPES, USES AND TECHNIQUES OF WEARING AND REMOVING:

Personal Protective Equipment’s  : personal protective equipment is special equipment’s to wear and to create a barrier between you and germs. This barrier reduces the chance of touching, being exposed to and spreading germs. Personal protective equipment’s (PPE) helps prevent the spread of germs in the hospital .this can protect people and health care workers from infusion.

 

Types of personal protective equipment :  

(a)    Gloves

(b)   Masks

(c)    Eye wear/goggles

(d)   Gowns

(e)    Cap

 

(a)    Gloves :  A pair of sterile gloves to protect one’s own hands from pathogenic micro-organism and to avoid contamination of sterile area by hand

Different kind of gloves .

·         House keeper gloves.

·         Clean gloves.

·         Sterile glove.

Purposes:

·         Patient care ,environmental services, other

·         To protect nurse from  pathogenic micro –organisms.

Equipment :

·         Articles as handwashing .

·         A pair of sterile surgical  gloves.

Procedure :

S.No	Nursing Action	Rationale
1	Perform hand hygiene and put on personal protective equipment , if indicated.	Hand hygiene and personal protective equipment prevent the spread of micro-organisms
2	Place sterile glove package of clean, dry surface at or above waist.	Moisture could contaminate the sterile gloves. any sterile object held below the waist is considered contaminated .
3	open the outside  wrapper by carefully feeling the top layer back remove inner package, handling only the outside of it	This maintains sterility of gloves in inner pocket
4	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.	The inner surface of the package is considered sterile. The outer 1-inch border of the inner package is considered contaminated.
5	With the thumb and forefinger of the non-dominate hand ,grasp the folded cuff of the gloves of dominant hand, touching only the exposed inside of the glove.	Unsterile hand touches only  inside of gloves outside remains sterile.
6	Keeping handle above the waist line, lift and hold the glove up and off the inner package with finger down	Glove is contaminated if it touches any unsterile objects.
7	Carefully insert dominate hand palm up into gloves and pull glove on .leave the cuff folded until the opposite hand is gloved	Attempting to turn upward with unsterile hand may result in contamination of sterile gloves.
8	Hold the thumb of the gloved hand outward. Place the fingers of the gloves  or hands .	Thumb is less likely to become contaminated if held outward
9	Carefully insert nondormant hand into glove. Pull the glove on, taking care that the skin does not touch  any of the outer surface of the gloves.
10	Slide the finger of one hand under the cuff of the other fully extend the cuff down the arm, touching only the sterile outside of the glove. repeat for the remaining hand	Sterile touches sterile.
11	Adjust gloves on both hands if necessary , touching only the sterile areas	Prevent accidental contamination from hand movement.

   

                                          Removal of Glove

S.no	Steps	Rationale
1	Remove the first glove by grasping it on its palmar surface taking care to avoid touching wrist.	This keep the soiled part of the used gloves from touching the skin of the wrist/hand.
2	Pull the first glove completely off by inverting or rolling the glove inside out. Discard in receptacle.	Outside of glove  does not touch skin surface.
	Take fingers of bare hand and tuck inside reaming glove cuff. Pull glove off, inside out .discard in receptacle.
4	Wash hands.