A nurse is providing morning care to a client whose infected wound must be redressed. Which of these actions is correct?

Question

a. Don clean gloves and change them between the morning care and dressing change.
b. Don clean gloves, remove them after morning care, wash hands, and apply new gloves for the dressing change.
c. Wash hands and wear one pair of clean gloves for all client's care.
d. Wear clean gloves for morning care and sterile gloves for the dressing change.

Answer 1

B
Barrier precautions refer to the use of personal protective equipment (e.g., gowns, gloves) to minimize risk of exposure to blood and body fluids by creating a barrier between the person and the microorganism and preventing transmission of the microorganism. Components of Standard Precautions include hand washing after touching blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions, and contaminated items, even if gloves were worn, and between tasks and procedures on the same client to prevent cross-contamination of body sites; and applying nonsterile gloves before touching mucous membranes, nonintact skin, blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions, and contaminated items.