School and sterile gloving

[XalieHealbot]

I am testing for the second time on Monday on changing a dry wound dressing. I failed my first attempt on sterile gloving. The gloves were stuck together. What is the best method to not break sterility and be able to glove on the first try? Any tips, tricks or ideas are appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Note this school gives you 2 attempts at a skill and if you don't make it on the second attempt, you are forced to withdraw.

Nursing student losing her mind

[LessValuableNinja]

Good, good. Congratulations. Those simulations can be very stressful, because it's very typical to have simulation exams be "two tries and you're out." And.. no one likes those stupid, stupid, stupid kit gloves.

[AngelKissed857, BSN, RN]

In my program, you had 3 tries and you're out, and it's at a community college.

[WanderingWilder, ASN]

Some schools seem to make these things so stressful. I messed up my skills check off for sterile gloves the first time, the instructor just stopped me, explained what I had done, had me grab a new pair and try again. Our skills check off are more of a learning experience then a test.

[SweetPotatoes]

This kinda happened to me my first semester--but the cuff was actually fused with the rest of the glove. Couldn't even put the thing on if I wanted to. The instructor stopped the validation and discarded the pair I had, and let me try again. IDK why schools are so ridiculous with this stuff.

[lvnforschool]

I tried surgical tech program years ago, thinking it would be a really cool health care field. Our first check off was sterile gloving. I kid you not, I was 2 weeks into the program, and the teacher actually passed me on sterile gloving, but then I was trying to help my friend, and teacher told me I was doing it wrong. Then she wanted me to demonstrate it again, and now I failed it. WHAT!! My options were to re-test again, and if I failed I would either have to quit or wait another 14 months for program to start again. They gave me a really crappy practice time, did not even really watch me, and said sorry, you touched the glove with your scrub top sleeve. It's okay though, pushed me to go into Nursing program where I passed everything, even STERILE gloving!!

[CKPM2RN, ASN, EMT-P]

Somebody said Amazon. Yes!! Order a box of the cheapest, crappiest gloves you can find because I've had those stuck together gloves before and if you can learn to work those, you can work any of them.

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

Just as a side note: I don't remember instructors threatening us with dismissal like this in nursing school. These check offs weren't this apocalyptic in nature, with our entire career hanging in the balance. Is this a for profit school?

I totally agree. Our instructors worked their butts off to help us succeed. Working on a skill like putting on sterile gloves was something they were willing to help us with until we got it down, and it was usually a matter of minutes to help someone remediate. They are TASKS that anyone can learn with enough practice. WTH is going on nowadays?!