The scrub nurse notices a small tear in one glove during the surgical procedure. Which does the scrub nurse implement?
1. Remove the damaged glove and scrub the hand again.
2. Ignore a very small tear if procedure is nearly finished.
3. Apply a new, sterile glove over the contaminated glove.
4. Ask circulating nurse to remove the contaminated glove.
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4. The circulating nurse removes the contaminated glove and opens a new package of gloves for the scrub nurse; then the scrub nurse dons the fresh glove by using the open-glove method.
1. Rescrubbing the hand is unnecessary.
2 and 3. The scrub nurse never ignores a tear in a glove or covers a contaminated item with a sterile item to restore the sterile field.
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