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(osmag.net/p5sDXR). One other key consideration: Post the
videos where staff will have easy access to them. We use our
intranet.
Mary Wilson, BSN, RN, CNOR
West Virginia University Hospitals
Morgantown, W.Va.
wilsonm@wvumedicine.edu
MAKE IT MANDATORY
Double (Glove) Or Nothing
W
e all know how difficult it can
be to convince staff to double-
glove. We tell all new OR nurses
and techs during their onboarding that
double-gloving is a requirement at our
facility. To drive the point home, new
staffers must size themselves for double
gloves during onboarding, while they per-
form their scrubbing competency.
We tell them it's our policy here, and even
more importantly, we explain why. We tell
them double-gloving decreases their
chances of being stuck, and that when they're changing gloves out for a
dirty procedure and want to go back to a sterile area, they can easily do
it without having to rescrub, which saves time and boosts efficiency.
The result? We get buy-in (and have experienced no pushback) from
our new hires. They understand it's our normal practice, and they sim-
ply go with the flow from the start.
Kristi Olsen, RN, BSN
MercyOne Medical Center
• NO DOUBLE TROUBLE Elyse Johnson, CST,
(right) teaches perioperative assistant Teresa
Norm how to double-glove at MercyOne
Medical Center.
MercyOne
Medical
Center
Clinton, Iowa
kristi.olsen@mercyhealth.com