Sterile table set up

I am (trying) to write a policy for our sterile delivery table set up. Right now, all of our nurses wear different PPE to set up: some wear just a mask, some hat and mask, some sterile gown but no mask. (Obviously all wear sterile gloves.)

Is there any standard when setting up a sterile table?

Thanks for your input!!

[suzanne4, RN]

What ever that you require to be worn while doing that procedure is what needs to be worn while setting up the table. If the table is set up sterile, then sterile attire needs to be worn, and that does not matter where it is set up, in the OR or the delivery suite.

Sterile gowns are not required to open items onto the sterile field, but if actually laying out the instruments on the table, then they need a gown. Hat and mask are always required.

Suggest that you use the AORN protocols for setting up a sterile table in a sterile environment.

[RNLaborNurse4U]

Your vaginal delivery table is actually not a sterile field, but a clean field. You should set it up as sterile/clean as possible. We are supposed to wear regular cover gowns, hat, and sterile gloves. Most of the time though, we just wear sterile gloves.

[BeccaznRN, RN]

We only use sterile gloves when setting up our tables.

[jesskalpn]

Ditto that.

[crissrn27, RN]

I've only used sterile gloves for a NSVD table, at two hospitals.

[crysobrn]

Just sterile gloves here too.

Although the nurses that have worked in our dept for a long time seem to wear masks so I'm assuming that was the standard practice years ago. They also used to wear cover gowns, hats, masks and sterile gloves to deliveries...

[OzMW]

I am (trying) to write a policy for our sterile delivery table set up. Right now, all of our nurses wear different PPE to set up: some wear just a mask, some hat and mask, some sterile gown but no mask. (Obviously all wear sterile gloves.)

Is there any standard when setting up a sterile table?

Thanks for your input!!

Is this for a normal vaginal birth? Why wear a mask hat and a gown??? I'd be pulling them up for wasting hosptial resources....

[Laurie Kay]

We have LDRP's where I work, and when we set up our delivery table, we only wear sterile gloves.

[OzMW]

This thread had me thinking how much things have changed int he time I've worked in maternity care. When I did my training in the early 90s, we gowned and gloved for normal births, the "delivery tray' was this elaborate setup (which of course had to be done in a particular way). We had a massive amount of sterile drapes on the birth pack, these have since been removed. The episiotomy scissors were removed. Now we throw on a plastic apron and a pair of gloves to do catches. And most of the stuff on the setup is not used. We have also replaced the sterile drapes with clean towels. How times change, thankfully!!