SURGICAL GOWNING
Sterile gowns are worn in the operating room and the delivery room and whenever open wounds are present which necessitate a sterile technique, e.g. to attend to patient with burns
Procedure
- Put on the head cap and mask first
- Scrub hand thoroughly
- Dry the hands with sterile towel
- Pick up the gown by grasping the folded gown at the neck. Stand well back about one foot from the sterile bundle and the table
- Unfold it by keeping the gown away from the body do not shake the gown
- Hold the gown at the shoulder (inside) and put each hand alternately into the arm holes
- Extend the arms and hold hands upward at the shoulder height
- The circulating nurse than assist her in pulling the sleeves by working from behind and holding the gown from the inside
- The gown is then fastened at the neck by the circulating nurse and the open edges are the folded or held together
- The waist ties are then fastened by the circulating nurse from behind
