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Lincoln Fowler
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Lincoln Fowler

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Hi Jan

The school based and community based immunisation nurses for Child and
Adolescent Community Health in Perth don’t wear gloves. They are
required to perform hand hygiene between clients using alcohol based
hand gel.

I hope this helps you.

Cheers

Lincoln Fowler / Infection Control / CACH

Department of Health

E: Lincoln.Fowler@health.wa.gov.au

L3 WASON, 151 Wellington St, PERTH WA 6000

http://www.health.wa.gov.au

Delivering a Healthy WA

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Behalf Of Roberts, Jan

Hi all

I have a question about the wearing of gloves and the use of hand
hygiene during vaccination clinics, in particular in schools or
community based clinics. The Immunisation guidelines state ‘that gloves
are not routinely recommended for immunisation service providers’ and
that standard precautions should be used.

Would be interested to know what others are doing.

1. Do the immunisation staff wear gloves or not?

2. If wearing gloves do they change them and perform hand hygiene
between each client/ individual?

3. If not wearing gloves do they perform hand hygiene between each
client?

Thanks

Jan

Jan Roberts RN,ICP

Infection Prevention & Control

Community Based Services, ACT Health

(W) 61745352

(M) 0435966792

(E) janL.roberts@act.gov.au

or communityinfectioncontrol@act.gov.au

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