PapaBear434
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Do you change your gloves during the call at all, or is it the same pair of gloves from start to finish?
Depends. If they are a "clean" patient, no, I just keep them on just in case they squirt some fluid out of someplace. I take them off after I clean up the stretcher. If they are bloody, I change after all the bleeding is controlled. If I just get a little blood on my glove via a glucose check or something, I just use the remaining alcohol left on the pad to clean it off.
But one way or another, I rarely if ever touch the patient with an ungloved hand, and I never touch anything else like my pen or something with a glove that has been exposed to a fluid.
Then, of course, my pen is covered with alcohol cleaner when the call is done anyway.