Niqab/gloves

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Assalamu alaykum. I have just finished my BSN and have never practiced nursing. I plan on wearing niqab. I don't see how I could wear gloves with hand hygiene issues. The plan for my attire is to wear a long nurse's dress with light colored or white pants underneath, with an amira hijab and half niqab or a shayla with half niqab in light colors. I had some issues with simply wearing the hijab during my ADN program, and I have since decided to wear niqab. Does anyone have experience with this, and if so, do you have any advice for a sister? Thank you!

I would really like to know what the issue is with gloves.

Niqab usually includes covering the hands as well as face, usually with cloth gloves.

I guess the issue that was being raised was gloving-degloving with disposable/clean/sterile gloves. Also, transfer of microbes that may be on the cloth gloves from one patient to another.

Thank you. Isolation would definitely have to be addressed. I can definitely see the niqab as presenting a problem there. I wonder how this is handled in Britain where there are niqabis who work in hospital settings.

Have you considered working post-partum? Majority of your pts will not be iso and most of your co-workers/pt will be females. Spouses/family will be there, but if you work night shift, it could be doable.

Niqab usually includes covering the hands as well as face, usually with cloth gloves.

I guess the issue that was being raised was gloving-degloving with disposable/clean/sterile gloves. Also, transfer of microbes that may be on the cloth gloves from one patient to another.

Thank you.

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