Gloving

Introduction

For this webquest you will learn the fundamentals of when healthcare providers should utilize PPE gloves during patient care in order to maintain patient and caregiver safety.

Task

During this webquest you can click on the different links and watch the video's and answer the corresponding questions.

 

Process

Identify when gloving for patient care is appropriate 

Evaluation

After watching the web links provided answer the following questions and achieve a score of 80% or greater to demonstrate competency.

Conclusion

Hopefully you have been able to identify the following points:

1.  Don gloves in any instance when you might come in contact with blood and body secretions. Such as - injections,emptying stool or urine, peri care, working with clean wounds.

2.  Don gloves prior to entering a contact isolation room.