1. Peel open the outer pack from the corners. The inner pack is sterile.
Gripping it through your gown, open it to display the gloves.
2. With your gown covering your fingers, use your right hand to remove
the left glove. Hold your left hand palm up, fingers straight. Lay the
glove on your left wrist, and grip the cuff with your left thumb.
3. Place your right thumb inside the top cuff edge. Make a fist with
your right hand and stretch the glove over your left fingertips.
4. Keeping your left fingers straight, pull down the glove.
5. Repeat the above procedure to don the other glove, that is: use your
gloved left hand to lay the right glove on your right wrist. Slide your
left thumb inside the top of the cuff, make a fist, and stretch the cuff
over your right fingertips. Pull down the sleeve and glove together.
The key to removing both sterile and non-sterile gloves is
"Dirty to Dirty - Clean to Clean",
that is, contaminated surfaces only touch other contaminated surfaces:
your bare hand, which is clean, touches only clean areas inside the
other glove.
1. Take hold of the first glove at the wrist.
2. Fold it over and peel it back, turning it inside out as it goes. Once
the glove is off, hold it with your gloved hand.
3. To remove the other glove, place your bare fingers inside the cuff
without touching the glove exterior. Peel the glove off from the inside,
turning it inside out as it goes. Use it to envelope the other glove.
