1. Sterile medical procedures
Surgical Technique

2. Handwashing Most important method in sterile and non sterile technique
Should be done:
When arriving and leaving facility
Before and after patient contact
After every procedure
Before and after gloves
After contact w/ soiled items, picking stuff up off floor, use of bathroom, coughing, sneezing or use of tissue
Before and after any contact w/ mouth or mucous membranes-eating, drinking, smoking, lipstick or chapstick, or inserting/removing contact lenses.

3. How to wash Hands
Gather all equipment (sink, soap, trash, cuticle stick, papertowels)
Stand back from sink (won’t contaminate uniform) and don’t touch sink w/ hands
Turn faucet on w/ papertowel
Wet hands with fingertips down-prevents water from running down forearms and then running back down and contaminating hands

4. How to Wash Hands
Use soap and lather hands-rub palms, lace fingers and create friction for seconds
Wash backs of hands with palms for 5 seconds
Clean nails with cuticle stick or rub nails into palms
Rinse hands with fingers down to prevent contamination
Dry hands thoroughly from fingers to wrist and throw towel away
Use another towel to turn off faucet and discard all towels in waste container.

5. Standard Precautions PPE (Gloves, Masks, Goggles/Eyewear)
Discarding infectious biohazard waste & sharps

6. Sterile Technique
Sterile technique or Surgical Asepsis is used to protect patient from further infection: Example: Stitches, surgery, catheter insertion, changing a sterile dressing or cleaning a wound, cleaning a central line

7. Sterile Field
Sterile Field-A sterile drape or towel that has been set up to place sterile instruments on or to protect area that is being worked on. Must not be broken. Never reach across field or drop non sterile objects on field. If this occurs, you must start all over.

8. Sterile techniques 3 main ways to put objects on sterile field: Drop
Mitten
Transfer forceps
**Sterile Field must be kept dry since water is a reservoir for pathogens

9. Sterile Technique

10. Sterile technique
IF at any time during procedure you feel that sterile field has been broken, start over.
Opening sterile packages
Putting on and removing sterile gloves
Preparing a sterile dressing tray
Changing a sterile dressing

11. Why is this important to know??
It keeps you from getting sick!!!

12. Chain of Infection

13. Activity Practice Handwashing Practice putting on sterile gloves
Practice taking off sterile gloves