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We provide an in house staff immunisation program, my providers do not wear gloves as hand hygiene is preformed between each immunisation. There are a couple of reasons for this;
* we believe that the use of gloves reduces hand hygiene compliance
* gloves are only unnecessary when there is a possible risk of exposure to body fluids
Regards,
Alan McLean BHlthSc, MHA
Manager Patient Safety & Quality
Clinical Services
SA Ambulance Service
Government of South Australia
Hi Jan
The school based and community based immunisation nurses for Child and Adolescent Community Health in Perth don’t wear gloves. They are required to perform hand hygiene between clients using alcohol based hand gel.
I hope this helps you.
Cheers
Lincoln Fowler / Infection Control / CACH
Department of Health
E: Lincoln.Fowler@health.wa.gov.au
L3 WASON, 151 Wellington St, PERTH WA 6000
http://www.health.wa.gov.au
Delivering a Healthy WA
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Hi all
I have a question about the wearing of gloves and the use of hand hygiene during vaccination clinics, in particular in schools or community based clinics. The Immunisation guidelines state ‘that gloves are not routinely recommended for immunisation service providers’ and that standard precautions should be used.
Would be interested to know what others are doing.
1. Do the immunisation staff wear gloves or not?
2. If wearing gloves do they change them and perform hand hygiene between each client/ individual?
3. If not wearing gloves do they perform hand hygiene between each client?
Thanks
Jan
Jan Roberts RN,ICP
Infection Prevention & Control
Community Based Services, ACT Health
(W) 61745352
(M) 0435966792
(E) janL.roberts@act.gov.au
or communityinfectioncontrol@act.gov.au
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