[marjenes@OPTUSNET.COM.AU Subject: Re: Gloving to Avoid Hand Hygiene In-Reply-To:]

Thursday

Dear Donna – just reading those suggestions which are all great.

Having done and still educating on this for over 25 years, I use one quote
from a paper from CDC in 2003! Am sure I can copy the text below

“Bacterial flora colonising patients may be recovered from the hands of 30%
of HCWs who wear gloves during patient contact”(I repeat this if it hasn’t
shocked them!). “Further, wearing gloves does not provide complete
protection against acquisition of infection caused by HBV and herpes simplex
virus. In such instances pathogens presumably gain access to a caregiver’s
hands via small defects in gloves or by contamination of the hands during
removal”

I focus on the 30% and that staff hands become contaminated either by glove
defects and/or during removal.

I think that should get the message over as a conclusion to any
demonstration

Regards,

Margaret Jennings
Marjen Education Services

website. http://www.marjenes.com.au
email. marjenes@optusnet.com.au

mob. 0404 088 754
fax. 03 9439 2436

Schmidt (South Western Sydney LHD)

Hello all, the biggest challenge I face is trying to get staff to believe in
the risk.

My latest trial is to find an innovative and practical way to make staff
realise that gloves do not provide adequate protection. We all know they
don’t, but how do we prove it?

Has anyone got tips or suggestions on practical demonstrations or even
simple and clear evidence I could use to convince staff that gloves are not
the be all and end all?

Kind Regards,

Donna Schmidt
Clinical Nurse Consultant Infection Control – Primary & Community Health

Rosemeadow Community Health Centre

5 Thomas Rose Drive, Rosemeadow, NSW, 2560
Tel (02) 4633 4113 | Fax (02) 4633 4111 | Mob 0438 925 816

donnamarie.schmidt@health.nsw.gov.au

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