How did you learn to scrub/gown and glove?

[lozstar, BSN, MSN, RN]

I am responsible for teaching a new nurse to scrub, gown and glove.

Last week I gave the new nurse the hospital policy on scrubbing, gowning and gloving and also asked her to read the section on this in a perioperative textbook which we have at work. Today we went through actually how to do it. I got her to do it with me (along side me) while I was teaching her.

Is this how you learnt to scrub, gown and glove or did you learn another way? I would love to hear from you.

[Dela RN]

That sounds about right! Reading alone can be confusing especially if you haven't seen it before so it's hard to mentally picture doing it. When I learned to do a surgical hand scrub (a year ago), we went through/read the AORN periop 101 module, then watched my instructor do it and then she had us do it and she watched us.