(EMR) Personal Safety Lesson

Personal Safety Lesson 

On regular days and in disasters protecting yourself from germs is sometimes as easy as simply washing your hands! Now you have been washing your hands your whole life. But do you wash them right? And wearing gloves - vinyl or latex - do you know how to take them off properly? Did you even know there is a "proper" way? This lesson is designed to help you do it the right way!

 

Hand Washing

There was a study done a while back. They took two groups of soldiers. One group they simply tracked and showed them nothing. The second group they taught how to properly wash hands and encouraged them to wash their hands five times a day. At the end of the flu season they compared the two groups. Those who had the hand washing lessons had significantly less incidents of all types of diseases. Simply washing your hands will make you healthier!

 

Before you begin the video below, please download the "Put Your Hands Together Links to an external site." worksheet. Next, view the video below to understand the proper way to wash your hands. As you view the video please complete the Put Your Hands Together Worksheet.

 

 

Germs and the Black Light

Yikes! That black light shows everything! Watch the video below to learn about Proper hand washing.

 

 

 

 

When should you wash? Check out the CDC Hand Washing poster: 

 

 

Gloves On, Gloves Off! The Proper Way!

Watch the video below to learn how to properly put on and take of sterile gloves.

The steps are listed in detail below the video as well.

 

 

Donning (putting on ) Gloves:

  1. Wash hand before putting gloves on.
  2. Remove all jewelry from hands.
  3. Pick up one glove with the right hand
  4. Line the thumb side of the glove up with the thumb side of the left hand
  5. Slip the open end of the glove over the left hand and thumb
  6. Stretch the palm side of the glove with the right hand, pulling the glove on to finger level.
  7. Position the fingers of the glove in line with the fingers of the left hand.
  8. Pull the remainder of the glove onto the left hand.
  9. Pick up the second glove with the gloved left hand.
  10. Line the thumb side of the glove up with the thumb side of the right hand.
  11. Slip the open end of the glove over the right hand and thumb.
  12. Stretch the palm side of the glove with the left hand, pull the glove on to finger level.
  13. Position the fingers of the glove in line with fingers of the right hand.
  14. Pull the remainder of the glove onto the right hand.
  15. Proceed with activity requiring gloves.

 

Doffing (taking off) gloves:

  1. Grasp one of the gloves and cuff and pull it partway off. The glove will turn inside out. It is important to keep the first glove partially on your hand before removing the second glove. This protects you from touching the outside of either glove with your bare hands.
  2. Leaving the first glove over your fingers, grasp the second glove near the cuff and pull it part of the way off. The glove will turn inside out. It is important to keep the second glove partially on your hand to protect you form touching the outside surface of the first glove with your bare hand.
  3. Pull off the two gloves at the same time, being careful to touch only the inside surfaces of the gloves with your bare hands.
  4. Dispose of the gloves by placing inside out in the trash.

 

 

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