Denture cleaning for bed-ridden patients

[faithfl]

In two weeks I am going for my certification for a nurse's aide. I think one of the tasks will be denture cleaning. When you leave the bed-ridden patient to clean the dentures, do you take off your gloves and then lower the bed, raise the safety railings, and give them their call button and then put on new gloves to clean the dentures?

[Rejoyce1]

In two weeks I am going for my certification for a nurse's aide. I think one of the tasks will be denture cleaning. When you leave the bed-ridden patient to clean the dentures do you take off your gloves and then lower the bed, raise the safety railings, and give them their call button and then put on new gloves to clean the dentures?[/quote']

Hi there,

You can do all of the safety measures (such as lowering the bed and putting up the bed rails) with or without gloves; that is not your priority concern. The priority is being sure those safety measures are taken. Whatever the case, you will definitely want to wear clean gloves when handling the client's dentures to ensure infection control.

(So to make it simple, if you still happen to have on gloves when lowering the bed and putting up the rails you can keep them on. But at the time of handling the patient's dentures, it would be best to put on fresh gloves). Hope that helps :)

[Compassion_x]

If the denture cleaning is the last thing you are doing: put on gloves, take out dentures, lower bed, wash dentures. If you're worried about contamination somewhere along the line: put on one glove, hold the cup with the other, pull out dentures with gloved hand, lower bed with ungloved hand. When you get to the bathroom put a glove on your other hand and then brush them.

[Glycerine82, LPN]

Yes, you need to change your gloves before you handle their dentures.

[slilly]

I would think raise their head of bed up, put gloves on, if they can take out their dentures ask them to do so and give them to you, if not then you take out dentures, take dentures to bathroom with a washcloth in the sink to protect dentures if they fall, clean the dentures, take dentures back out to patient with your gloves still on, put a little bit of denture paste on the dentures, insert dentures back in, take off your gloves, lower head of bed a little, give the patient the call light, clean up the bathroom. This is just how the skill went through my head, but it probably isn't correct since I haven't taken the new nurse aide exam to see what they have and haven't changed. I would say if this is your skill that you know you will be doing then re-read the booklet they give you to study by. Personally, I didn't know what skills I was doing until I got to the exam site, I knew I had to do handwashing, measuring an output like fake urine, and do a vital sign.

[correysmith23]

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