RETDEM

• Performing Hand Hygiene Using Soap and Water (Hand Washing)


  1. Prepare and gather all necessary equipment

  2. Prepare and assess your hands. Trim your nails short

  3. Turn on faucet and regulate water flow

  4. Wet hands with water

  5. Apply enough soap to cover all hand surfaces

  6. Rub hands palm to palm

  7. Rub back of each hand with palm of other hand with fingers interlaced

  8. Rub palm to palm with finger interlaced

  9. Rub with back of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked

  10. Rub each thumb clasped in opposite hand using rotational movement

  11. Rub tip of fingers in opposite palm in circular motion

  12. Rub each wrist with opposite hand

  13. Rinse hands with water

  14. Use elbow to turn off tap. (If no elbow tap available, use paper towel to turn off tap)

  15. Dry thoroughly with single use towel and discard
• Putting On Sterile Gloves and Removing Soiled Gloves


  1. Check that the sterile glove package is dry and unopened. Also note expiration date, making sure that the date is still valid

  2. Place sterile glove package on clean, dry surface at or above your waist

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

  4. Place the inner package on the work surface with the side labelled "cuff end" closest to the body

  5. 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

  6. With the thumb and forefinger of the non-dominant hand, grasp the folded cuff of the glove for the dominant hand, touching only the exposed inside of the glove

  7. 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

  8. Carefully insert dominant hand palm up into glove and pull glove on. Leave the cuff folded until the opposite hand is gloved

  9. 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

  10. Carefully insert non-dominant hand into glove. Pull the glove on, taking care that the skin does not touch any of the outer surfaces of the gloves

  11. 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

  12. Adjust gloves on both hands if necessary, touching only sterile areas with other sterile areas

  13. Use dominant hand to grasp the opposite gloves 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

  14. Slide fingers of un-gloved hand between the remaining glove and the wrist. Take care to avoid touching the outside surface of the glove. Remove it by pulling it off, inverting it as it is pulled, keeping the contaminated area in the inside, and securing the first glove inside the second

  15. Discard the gloves in appropriate container and perform hand hygiene