NURSING FOUNDATION
Topic : PERSONAL PROTECTIVE
EQUIPMENT
• Personal protective equipment is special equipment you wear to create a
barrier between you and germs. This barrier reduces the chance of
touching, being exposed to, and spreading germs.
• Personal protective equipment (PPE) helps prevent the spread of germs
in the hospital. This can protect people and health care workers from
infections.
• THE USE OF PPE A variety of barriers to protect HCW’s mucous
membranes, airways, skin, and clothing (whenever blood/body fluids
splashes are expected)
• THE USE OF PPE
• Gloves – Use when touching blood, body fluids, secretions,
excretions, contaminated items; for touching mucus
membranes and non intact skin.
• Gowns – Use during procedures and patient care activities
when contact of clothing/ exposed skin with blood/body
fluids, secretions, or excretions is anticipated.
• Mask, goggles or face shield – Use during patient care
activities likely to generate splashes or sprays of blood, body
fluids, secretions, or excretions
• Select appropriate type and size (Covers arms, body front, neck to mid- thigh)
Opening is in the back .
• Secure at neck and waist.
• If gown is too small, use two gowns.
• Gown #1 ties in front .
• Gown #2 ties in back
REMOVING GOWN:
• Unfasten ties.
• Peel gown away from neck and shoulder.
• Turn contaminated outside toward the inside.
• Fold or roll into a bundle. & Discard.
SURGICAL MASK
• to protect patients from respiratory secretions.
• placed on coughing patients.
• procedures that generates splashes and sprays.
How to Don a Mask
• Place over nose, mouth and chin
• Fit flexible nose piece over nose bridge
• Secure on head with ties or elastic Surgical Mask
N95 Respirator:
• Fit flexible nose piece over nose bridge
• Secure on head with elastic band.
• Perform the seal check –
• Inhale – respirator should collapse
• Exhale – check for leakage around face
• FIT TEST
•Performed annually
•Each staff should be aware about his fitted Type
and size.
Removing of N95
• Lift the bottom elastic over your head first
• Then lift off the top elastic
• Discard
Eye goggles & face shield
• Position goggles over eyes and secure to the
head using the ear pieces or headband.
• Position face shield over face and secure on
brow with headband.
• Used in : -
• Direct contact with blood, body fluids, non
intact skin, mucous membrane and
potentially infectious materials –
• Dealing with patients under contact isolation
• Put on last PPE and first to be removed
GLOVES:-
• Gloves must be worn according to STANDARD and CONTACT
PRECAUTIONS
• Hand hygiene should be performed when appropriate regardless of
indication for glove use.
• How to Don Gloves
• Don gloves last
• Select correct type and size
• Insert hands into gloves
• Extend gloves over isolation gown cuffs
How to Remove Gloves:
• Grasp outside edge near wrist.
2. Peel away from hand, turning glove inside-out.
3. Hold in opposite gloved hand.
How to Remove Gloves
Slide ungloved finger under the wrist of the remaining
glove
2. Peel off from inside, creating a bag for both gloves.
3. Discard.
How to Safely Use PPE:
• Keep gloved hands away from face.
• Avoid touching or adjusting other PPE.
• Remove gloves if they become torn; perform
hand hygiene before donning new gloves.
• Limit surfaces and items touched to avoid
contamination.
SEQUENCE OF DONNING PPE:
• Gown first.
• Mask or respirator.
• Goggles or face shield.
Sequence for Removing PPE:
• Gloves
• Hand Hygiene
• Face shield or goggles.
• Gown.
• Mask or respirator.
Where to Remove PPE:
•At doorway, before leaving patient room
or in anteroom.
• Remove respirator outside room, after
door has been closed.
