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This information explains how to put on a pair of sterile gloves correctly.
- If you have rings on your fingers, take them off. Then, wash your hands with warm soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
- Place the package with the sterile gloves on a clean, dry surface. Open the package and pull the edges of the package down to keep them flat.
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Open the sterile gloves wrapper, touching only the outer side of the glove wrapper.
- Some packages (such as the package for placing an indwelling urinary catheter) include a pair of sterile gloves.
- Use the thumb and fingers of your nondominant hand (the hand you don’t write with) to hold the folded inner surface of the glove for your dominant hand (the hand you write with). Make sure the outside of the glove does not touch anything.
- Lift up the glove and place your dominant hand into the glove, palm side up.
- Pull down the cuff of the glove by touching only the inner surface of the glove.
- Gently stretch the glove over your hand, making sure the outside of the glove doesn’t touch anything.
- Slip two fingers on your gloved hand under the cuff of the other glove. Hold the glove up and don’t let it touch anything.
- Keep the thumb on your gloved hand pointing up, so it’s out of the way. Slide your other hand into the glove. Pull the glove all the way up. Be careful not to touch anything, including your wrist.
- Keep your hands above waist-level and avoid touching anything that isn’t sterile. This will the decrease your chance of contamination.
Special precautions
- Open supplies away from the already set up sterile field to avoid contaminating the field.
- If there is a kit of other sterile items, take the gloves in a sterile package and set up away from the sterile field. Then go back once the gloves are on both hands.
It’s important that you follow the instructions for putting on sterile gloves to avoid infection.
