Gloves Use for Safety or Overuse - Journal - June 2024
| Type of post: | Teaching Resource |
| Sub-type: | IPC Journal Club |
| Posted By: | Jenny Watts |
| Status: | Current |
| Date Posted: | Thu, 20 Jun 2024 |
Journal Review given by Susan Jain Title - Gloves: Use for safety or overuse?
Important points to remember about glove use include:
Guidelines for glove use can be found at this Gloves Off campaign website, and there are also links here for resources to use in Hand Hygiene Audits (protocol and audit tool), an educational presentation, the poster below and other related materials.
Important points to remember about glove use include:
- Gloves do not provide complete protection against hand contamination
- Glove use is widely accepted to be associated with poor hand hygiene compliance
- hand hygiene compliance as low as 41% when gloves are utilised
- 49% of healthcare workers do not perform hand hygiene when removing gloves
- 37% of glove usage leads to cross contamination with healthcare workers touching multiple surfaces whilst wearing the same gloves.
Guidelines for glove use can be found at this Gloves Off campaign website, and there are also links here for resources to use in Hand Hygiene Audits (protocol and audit tool), an educational presentation, the poster below and other related materials.
| For more information, see: | www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(17)31009-X/abstract |
