Originally Posted by rninwch
A midwife I used to work with would say, "There ain't nothing sterile about a vaginal delivery." That being said she believed in keeping things as close to sterile as possible...but she wasn't feaky about it.
Most of the docs I work with like their instruments and table sterile, they gown and glove sterile, but since when is a vagina sterile? Once the doc touches anything that was in the vagina he is no longer sterile. Most of our docs get that, they aim for keeping away any germs that don't belong to the pt.
One is ridiculous about keeping things sterile wants dad and RN in clean gowns, masks,then he sterile drapes everything and will even change gloves after the delivery if he needs to repair. On the other hand we have a doc that doesn't gown, and wouldn't use gloves at all if he could get away with it (YUCK!!).
Although I guess I don't think it's all that strange to change gloves. I usually do before I do a repair. Not that I think it helps things stay more sterile, but it's just nicer to have clean gloves on.
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