What’s wrong with this picture? Week 2
Each week throughout May and June, we’re hosting “What’s wrong with this picture” to raise awareness about correct glove use and hand hygiene. It’s a “what not to do” for glove use! To play just enter your guess as to what’s wrong in the glove use picture into the comments section at the end of the article.
Correct answers will be entered into a draw for these prizes:
- One of two $25 gift cards
- A VCH ball cap
- A VCH stainless water bottle
The details
There are eight pictures in all—one each week from May 5 through June 23. Check out each week’s picture, then scroll down to the comment section and post your guess about what you think the glove use error is that’s being shown in the picture. But watch out! One of the photos will show correct glove use!
- Deadline for all entries is June 24.
- Winners will be drawn from correct answers and announced in the June 30 VCH News.
- You must use your real name and a valid email address to comment and enter the draw.
Have fun and don’t forget to check back each week for a new picture!
Need a review on proper glove use?
Check the World Health Organization Glove Use Information Leaflet
Cheryl
Shouldn’t wear gloves while charting. The potential dirty gloves may transmit germs to the chart and pen or vise versa. Later on the dirty gloves can transmit germs to patients by contact
Sara
improper use of gloves, coudl be contaminated and now she’s spreading the germs. no gloves should be used when charting
Pakia Ganapathi
Everything has a purpose. In hospital settings gloves are essential for direct patient/client care. Gloves have no business in an Office like environment such as when nurses are charting.
Yolanda Russell
If gloves have been used for patient care, they should be taken off, hands washed prior to writing in the chart to avoid cross-contamination
Zoe
Yes the gloves are definitely an issue but what about the stethoscope hanging around the neck? It could easily be used to choke the nurse or pulled on by a patient in a transfer situation, resulting in a severe injury.
Devinder
After patient care is completed, gloves should be removed and disposed and proper hand hygiene completed. Charting should not be done wearing gloves!
Mylyn Custodio
Gloves are used for patient /client care and other medical procedure but not for charting. Cross-contamination! is a big issue on that picture. Proper hand hygiene should be practice.
Alena Bartok
Inapproprate glove usage. Gloves are only top be used while performing a task that involves direct bodily fluids.
Analiza Suano
Health care staff wearing gloves while charting. improper hand hygiene practice. Should have taken the glove off after a task or procedure, discarded the glove, sanitized or washed hands afterwards.
shiva mehrzad
Gloves shouln’t be used for charting .Gloves are to be worn for
1-to reduce the risk of contamination of health-care workers hands with blood and other body fluids .
2-to reduce the risk of germ dissemination to the environment and of transmission from the health care worker to the patient and vice versa.
dimple
gloves should we removed
shiva mehrzad
She should’t use gloves for charting .Gloves are to be worn for
1-to reduce the risk of contamination of healh -care workers hand with blood and other body fluids.
2-to reduce th risk of germ dissemination to the environment and of transmission from the health care worker to the patient and vice versa.
Gurmeet
Gloves shound be removedcross before writing in a patients .Dirty gloves will contaminate chart, pen etc. Alternatively, gloves at risk of picking up germs off chart if being worn pre-handling patient or patient items.
Bernadette
Staff should not have been wearing gloves while charting.
Sheri
Gloves aren’t needed for charting, only for patient care. They should have been removed before they leftthe patient’s room.
Juliet Quiddam
-Failure to remove gloves and wash hands prior charting.
Iana
Clean hands better than dirty gloves! A medical professional should remove gloves after taking care of a patient, then wash hands with soap and water or use a hand sanitizer. Gloves are not needed for charting.
Brittany
Gloves shound be removed, hands should be washed with warm water and soap or hand sanitizer before writing in a patients chart 🙂
Bansi Gandhi
Gloves must be removed after caring for a patient, followed by hand hygeine.Charting with gloves on, amounts to Indirect Patient Exposure. The unnecssary and inappropriate use of gloves results in not only waste of resources but may increase the risk of germ transmission.
Carman
The staff does not need to wear gloves for administrative work. If the gloves are used, the nurse should discard it right away after use. If the gloves are clean, the staff should not wear them to override basic hand hygiene (eg: hand washing & hand sanitizing).
Kathy
Gloves should not be worn while charting. If the gloves have already been used for other things, it will contaminate the pen, chart, etc. If it is a new pair of gloves, then she should not use for patient contact after charting. However, if she is using a pair of new gloves to protect herself (ie. if she has huge wounds) and is not using the pair of gloves later for patient contact, it should not be considered wrong.
Amanda
If the gloves are dirty, the nurse should have removed her gloves and sanitized her hands before charting to avoid transferring germs onto the chart/pen/desk, which can be transferred to other people who share the same work area. If the gloves are clean and the nurse is about to see a patient, she should have put on the clean gloves after charting to avoid picking up any germs from the chart/etc.
KM
If the staff was previously working in a patient environment and/or had patient contact, then the gloves should be removed and HH should be done before returning to work in the nursing station/charting to prevent transmitting germs from the patient environment to the healthcare environment.
Bernardus Speckling
The purpose of using gloves is not just to protect yourself but also others. The using of dirty gloves while performing “clean” work contaminates the clean work areas. The next person touching that chart will get contaminated with the germs from the gloves. This bad practice of not removing contaminated gloves spreads germs to other objects like handrails, eleveator buttons and door knobs. This unnecesarily spreads germs around the hospital. Something we wish to avoid at all costs..
Rachelle Coleman
Nurses should not wear gloves while charting. Nurses are for direct pt care and to be removed after task completed in the appropriate manner.
Rob
Gloves wrong size, sleeve askew in a slovenly manner and no wristwatch.
jessica
You should only use gloves for direct patient care
Amy
This person is spreading the germs from the gloves to the chart. He/she should replace the chart with a new sheet so the germs wont contaminate the other papers. He/she should remove gloves and wash hands using the proper hand hygiene protocol before writing on chart. Also he/she should wipe the pen with a Caviwipe since it was touched with the dirty glove. The counter and outer patient binder should be wiped down using the Caviwipe to disinfect the dirty areas where the dirty gloves came in contact with.
Jennifer Seslija
Ewwww… charting with gloves on. She should have removed her gloves and washed her hands before charting.
Bansi Gandhi
Gloves should be removed after caring for a patient, followed by hand hygiene before charting. Inappropriate techniques for donning and removing gloves may also result in germ transmisson.
Zori Kaneva
The nurse should have removed her gloves, washed her hands, and then begin charting.
Carolyn Summerfield
The nurse should have removed gloves, washed hands, and then charted.
Lin
Gloves are primarily used to prevent transmission of contaminated blood, body fluids,virus, bacteria, biohazard materials (not while charting because if it is contaminated every contact surfaces ie pens,counter,chairs,etc now contains+spreads viruses,bacteria to anyone touching them). Hands must be washed before and after glove use per VCH Hand hygiene protcol. Proper glove disposal after use in garbage bins as they can’t be recycled.
peter kubota
cross contamination – dirty gloves will contaminate chart, pen etc. Alternatively, gloves at risk of picking up germs off chart if being worn pre-handling patient or patient items
Karen
do not wear Gloves, they are only for single use, and it is not for writing.
Jesse K
should not be using gloves for writing
Givan
According to “The Glove Pyramid – to aid decision making on when to wear (and not wear) gloves”:
Gloves are not indicated/ needed while there’s indirect patient exposure such as using the phone or writing in the patient’s chart. There’s no potential for exposure to blood or body fluids, or contaminated environment.
HOWEVER!!! With that being said, even if you don’t need to wear gloves while writing reports/ charts, good hand hygiene should still be performed when appropriate regardless of indications for glove use.
Jillian
Assuming that these gloves are dirty, she should have taken them off after use. Immediate disposal of contaminated gloves and washing hands are part of the HH protocol.
Arri Aruelo
Writer should have removed her gloves, washed or sanitized her hands, and then started charting.
Sarah
Gloves should be removed after seeing a patient/resident and hands should be washed or sanitizer used; before charting.
Lisa Andres
She shouldn’t be using gloves while charting.
kathy DCL
she should not be wearing gloves while charting