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re your staffers and surgeons double-gloving for most, if not
all, cases? If they're not, they should be, with study after study
touting the improved safety of double-gloving. Yet a recent
Outpatient Surgery online survey of 114 surgical leaders
shows more than three-fourths (77%) of respondents say their
Our survey shows that while double-gloving is
catching on, there's still work to be done.
What's Your
Double-Gloving Policy?
Kendal Gapinski | Associate Editor
Pamela
Bevelhymer,
RN,
BSN
z TWICE AS NICE Wearing 2
pairs of gloves can significantly
lower your risk for contamination
and punctures, yet many sur-
geons and staffers don't do so.
