Applying and Removing Personal Protective Equipment (PPT) checklist
PURPOSES
To protect healthcare workers and clients from transmission of potentially infective materials
EQUIPMENT
• Gown
• Mask
• Eyewear
• Clean gloves
IMPLEMENTATION RATIONALE Poor (1) Good (2) Competent (3)
1) Remove or secure all loose items such
as name tags or jewelry.
2) Perform hand hygiene
3) Apply a clean gown.
• Pick up a clean gown, and allow it to
unfold in front of you without allowing
it to touch any area soiled with body
substances.
• Slide the arms and the hands through
the sleeves.
• Fasten the ties at the neck to keep the
gown in place
Overlap the gown at the back as much Overlapping
as possible, and fasten the waist ties or securely covers the
belt uniform at the back.
Waist ties keep
the gown from falling
away from the body,
which can cause
inadvertent soiling of the
uniform
4) Apply the face mask.
• Locate the top edge of the mask. The
mask usually has a narrow metal strip
along the edge
• Hold the mask by the top two strings or
loops.
• Place the upper edge of the mask over
the bridge of the nose, and tie the upper
ties at the back of the head or secure the
loops around the ears.
(If glasses are worn, fit the upper edge
of the mask under the glasses.) clouding of the glasses is
less likely to occur.
• Secure the lower edge of the mask To be effective, a mask
under the chin, and tie the lower ties at must cover both the nose
the nape of the neck and the mouth because air
moves in and out of both.
*If the mask has a metal strip, adjust it A secure fit prevents
firmly over the bridge of the nose both the escape and the
inhalation of
microorganisms
around the edges of the
mask and the fogging of
eyeglasses.
*Wear the mask only once and do not becomes ineffective when
wear any mask once it becomes wet moist from exhaled
Do not leave a used face mask breath.
hanging around the neck.
5) Apply protective eyewear
6) Apply clean gloves
pull the gloves up to cover the cuffs of
the gown.
* To remove soiled PPE
1) remove the gloves first since they keeps the soiled parts of
are the used gloves from
the most soiled by grasping the first touching the skin of the
glove on its palmar surface wrist or hand
Pull the first glove completely off by Touching the outside of
inverting or rolling the glove inside out. the second soiled glove
• Continue to hold the inverted removed with the bare hand is
glove by the fingers avoided.
• Place the first two fingers
of the bare hand inside the cuff of the
second glove.
Pull the second glove off to the fingers The soiled part of the
by turning it inside out. This pulls the glove is folded to the
first glove inside the second glove inside to reduce the
. chance of transferring any
microorganisms
by direct contact
2) Perform hand hygiene. Contact with
microorganisms
may occur while
removing PPE.
3) Remove protective eyewear and
dispose or place in the appropriate
receptacle for cleaning
4) Remove the gown before The top part of the gown
leaving the patient room. may be soiled
Avoid touching soiled parts on the e.g. holding an infant with
outside of the gown a respiratory infection
Grasp the gown along the inside of the
neck and pull down over the shoulders.
(Do not shake)
• Roll up the gown with the soiled part
inside, and discard it
5) Remove the mask after leaving the This prevents the top part
patient room of the mask from falling
first untie the lower strings of the mask onto the chest
Untie the top strings and, while holding The front of the mask
the ties securely, remove the mask from through which the nurse
the face has been breathing is
• Do not touch the front of the mask. contaminated.
• Discard it in the waste container
.
6) Perform proper hand hygiene again.
