Hi Carr
I think the argument is that a sharp has potential to cause harm, and a glove
would reduce risk of BBV transmission.
So for any practice involving body fluids, or sharp instrument gloves should be
worn.
It's in local Policy, so we should be doing this, as if an injury was to occur and
we hadn't followed Policy we'd be in breach of this. Secondly, it'd be hard to
encourage staff to wear gloves if we didn't adopt the practice ourselves.
I have had this discussion for some time with my colleagues in Infection
Control, and they did at one time suggest the use of disposable aprons and
removal of id badges on lanyards due to cross infection.
Thankfully, the aprons haven't been enforced, but the gloves remains an issue.
I come back to my original point, in that during a flu clinic the increased cost
not to mention time could be an issue. Such clinics already operate on a tight
schedule.
regards
Glenn
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