長期照護機構因應COVID-19個人防護裝備穿脫訓練（英語）《解答》

In the personal protective equipment (PPE) removal area, hand hygiene facilities and infectious waste containers should be available. It is not necessary to immediately perform hand hygiene practices after PPE is removed.

When caring for residents with symptoms of infection, transmission-based precautions ( contact, droplet , or airborne) should also be used  as indicated in addition to standard precautions.

Standard precautions should always be used, regardless of whether other transmission-based precautions are simultaneously applied or not.

When removing an N95 mask, first remove the top elastic band, then the bottom elastic band.

When wearing gloves and gowns, you don't  have to pull the cuffs of gloves over the sleeves of the gown.

Do not wear the same pair of gloves or gowns when providing care for more than one resident. Do not reuse or wash gloves. Ensure your caregiving workflow proceeds from cleaning to contaminated areas. Do not wear gloves to handle paperwork or answer phones.

A mask should be worn completely over the nose and mouth.

The anterooms to patient rooms can be used for personal protective equipment (PPE) doffing. If there is no anteroom, the PPE removal process may be performed at the doorway outside the patient rooms as an alternative.

There should be an observer or a mirror for inspection of  personal protective equipment (PPE) donning and doffing. During the PPE doffing process, one should avoid touching the contaminated environments to prevent self-contamination.

Which of the following statements regarding personal protective equipment (PPE) is incorrect?