Skills
Performing Sterile Gloving
Quick Sheet
ALERT
1. Gather the necessary equipment and supplies. Select the correct size and type of gloves. Examine the sterile glove package to ensur
package is intact and dry and that the expiration date has not passed. If in doubt, get a new package of sterile gloves. Place extra ste
in the operating room (OR) or procedure room before beginning the sterile procedure in case sterile gloves become contaminated or
punctured and need to be changed.
2. Performed surgical hand antisepsis using surgical hand scrub or alcohol-based hand rub per the manufacturer’s instructions for use
organization’s practice and donned head covering, mask (if applicable), and eye protection or face shield per the organization’s practi
sterile procedure. Inspect the condition of your hands and fingernails. Look for any cuts, lesions, or other breaks in skin integrity. If fo
follow the agency’s practice for covering an open lesion with a sterile, impervious transparent dressing, as allowed.
3. To apply gloves:
a. Remove the outer wrapper of the glove package by carefully separating and peeling apart the sides of the package.
b. Grasp the inner glove package, and lay it on a clean, dry, flat surface that is at waist level. Open the inner package, keeping the
on the inside surface of the wrapper.
c. Identify the right and left glove. Each glove has a cuff that is about 5 cm (2 inches) wide. You will glove your dominant hand fi
d. With the thumb and the first two fingers of your nondominant hand, grasp the glove for your dominant hand at the cuff by tou
only the glove’s inside surface.
e. Carefully pull the glove over your dominant hand, leaving it cuffed. Be sure that the cuff does not roll up around your wrist and
your thumb and fingers are in the correct spaces.
f. With your gloved dominant hand, slip the fingers inside the cuff of the second glove. Do not touch the top surface of the cuff w
gloved hand, as this will break the sterile field.
g. Carefully pull the second glove over your nondominant hand.
h. After the second glove is on, interlock your hands above the level of your waist. The cuffs will usually fall down after applicati
to touch only the sterile sides.
4. To dispose of gloves:
a. Grasp the outside of one glove cuff with the other gloved hand; avoid touching the skin.
b. Pull the glove off, away from yourself, turning it inside out and placing it in your gloved hand.
c. Tuck the thumb or fingers of your bare hand inside the cuff of the remaining glove. Peel the glove off inside out and over the g
just removed. Discard both gloves in the trash receptacle per agency practice.
d. Perform thorough hand hygiene.
Performing Sterile Gloving
Quick Sheet
ALERT
1. Gather the necessary equipment and supplies. Select the correct size and type of gloves. Examine the sterile glove package to ensur
package is intact and dry and that the expiration date has not passed. If in doubt, get a new package of sterile gloves. Place extra ste
in the operating room (OR) or procedure room before beginning the sterile procedure in case sterile gloves become contaminated or
punctured and need to be changed.
2. Performed surgical hand antisepsis using surgical hand scrub or alcohol-based hand rub per the manufacturer’s instructions for use
organization’s practice and donned head covering, mask (if applicable), and eye protection or face shield per the organization’s practi
sterile procedure. Inspect the condition of your hands and fingernails. Look for any cuts, lesions, or other breaks in skin integrity. If fo
follow the agency’s practice for covering an open lesion with a sterile, impervious transparent dressing, as allowed.
3. To apply gloves:
a. Remove the outer wrapper of the glove package by carefully separating and peeling apart the sides of the package.
b. Grasp the inner glove package, and lay it on a clean, dry, flat surface that is at waist level. Open the inner package, keeping the
on the inside surface of the wrapper.
c. Identify the right and left glove. Each glove has a cuff that is about 5 cm (2 inches) wide. You will glove your dominant hand fi
d. With the thumb and the first two fingers of your nondominant hand, grasp the glove for your dominant hand at the cuff by tou
only the glove’s inside surface.
e. Carefully pull the glove over your dominant hand, leaving it cuffed. Be sure that the cuff does not roll up around your wrist and
your thumb and fingers are in the correct spaces.
f. With your gloved dominant hand, slip the fingers inside the cuff of the second glove. Do not touch the top surface of the cuff w
gloved hand, as this will break the sterile field.
g. Carefully pull the second glove over your nondominant hand.
h. After the second glove is on, interlock your hands above the level of your waist. The cuffs will usually fall down after applicati
to touch only the sterile sides.
4. To dispose of gloves:
a. Grasp the outside of one glove cuff with the other gloved hand; avoid touching the skin.
b. Pull the glove off, away from yourself, turning it inside out and placing it in your gloved hand.
c. Tuck the thumb or fingers of your bare hand inside the cuff of the remaining glove. Peel the glove off inside out and over the g
just removed. Discard both gloves in the trash receptacle per agency practice.
d. Perform thorough hand hygiene.
