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Thanks everyone for your feedback. Much appreciated.
Michael – we are using contactless forehead thermometers. And I have
witnessed exactly what you mentioned regarding inappropriate glove use. The
cashiers at Costco wear them for hours at a time (I know because I asked
the person ringing me up how often she was required to change them). I
emailed Costco’s health and safety director and asked about their glove use
protocol. He said the directive they received from the US head office was
to only change them if they “got dirty.” Yikes.
I also noted that clinicians doing COVID tests at drive-through clinics
here in Melbourne weren’t changing gloves between tests! Which means they
weren’t performing hand hygiene, either.
Rachel – I agree with you. Work Safe has introduced an unintended risk by
recommending glove use. And they don’t provide context on how to safely use
them for non-healthcare workplaces introducing temp screenings.
I am hoping to convince Uni Melb to forgo gloves for temp checks, but it
may be difficult. They typically stick tight to Work Safe recommendations.
Thanks again, all. Great to hear your thoughts.
Cheers
Crystal
Crystal Polson, RN, MSN
Infection Control Coordinator
University of Melbourne
crystal.polson@unimelb.edu.au
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 9:38 AM Michael Wishart
wrote:
> I had a discussion with someone performing temp screening at an airport
> about this. They were wearing gloves, and doing tympanic temperature
> readings. They quite frequently had to manipulate either the persons hair
> or their pinna to get a reading, but were not changing gloves nor
> performing hand hygiene between patients! They said that is what they had
> been instructed to do.
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> It will depend on what devices you are using, and whether you actually
> have to have physical contact with each person, etc. Tympanic temperature
> readings will probably have the most contact with each person, and thus
> hand hygiene after each patient contact without gloves being worn would be
> the most practical. Using a non-touch infrared device will mean the
> likelihood of having physical contact with patients will be much lower, and
> gloves could be worn for longer between hand hygiene opportunities..
> Certainly not a one-size-fits-all type situation.
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>
> We have thermal scanners at the entrances to our hospitals, and thus no
> direct contact with most people. If the thermal scanner detects a high
> temperature, we then take the person aside and perform tympanic readings to
> verify. In that instance gloves are worn and discarded and hand hygiene
> performed for each patient.
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> Interesting discussion, thanks.
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> Cheers
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> Michael
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> *From:* ACIPC Infexion Connexion *On Behalf Of *Crystal
> Polson
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 9 September 2020 4:44 PM
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> *Subject:* [ACIPC_Infexion_Connexion] PPE for Temp Screenings
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> Hi all,
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> Hope everyone is doing well.
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> Just wondering – if your facility is doing temperature screenings, what
> is your PPE protocol?
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> I am in Victoria. Work Safe guidelines mention that gloves and masks
> should be worn. My question is, how often should the gloves be changed?
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> We’re using non-contact forehead thermometers so the screener is not
> touching the person being screened.
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> Cheers
>
> Crystal
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> Crystal Polson
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> Infection Control Coordinator
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> University of Melbourne
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