Nitrile gloves are medical gloves made from a synthetic rubber that has many beneficial properties - providing little friction for instance and thus ensuring that the gloves can slip easily on and off, and thus allowing them to be worn more quickly and easily while at the same time also providing a high amount of solvent resistance so that they can be used with the chemicals that are found in a hospital setting.
They are also highly flexible which allows for fine movements such as picking up small instruments or making other fine gestures and hand positions.
Normally nitrile gloves will be worn once and once only, and the purpose of this is that it means that the bacteria is not spread from one patient directly to another and to avoid other germs getting onto the patients who will have low immune systems and open wounds and generally be susceptible to illness.
However the use of nitrile gloves is not restricted to just benefiting the patients but can also help the staff to avoid infecting themselves and help to protect them in other ways.
For instance using nitrile gloves those working in a medical setting will be less likely to get bacteria on their hands underneath the gloves and so it wouldn't matter if they later touched their faces.
This is very important of course for medical professionals working with a range of serious and contagious conditions.
At the same time though it is also important for the patients that the staff stay in good health, and it is equally important for the service that the hospital provides.
First of all, it is of course the case that if a member of staff themselves catches an illness or condition from a patient, they may then pass it on to others even if they have taken other health precautions.
Equally they may also accidentally pass their illness on to other members of staff and that would mean that a larger majority of the hospital staff were unwell and likely to pass the illness on to patients.
Further though, if the staff are seriously ill they will not be able to provide the service for the patients and an understaffed hospital can have bad implications for those who need medical care.
Additionally, if the hospital is understaffed then they will be forced to hire out other members of staff to temp for them such as locum staff.
This will then cost the hospital more money and that can mean that the hospital is not only understaffed but also under-equipped.
This is why it's so important to keep medical staff in top health, and how gloves can help to achieve this end.
On top of all this nitrile gloves also protect staff from other hazards too though.
For instance they are resistant to chemicals meaning that things like acids will be less likely to harm the hands of the staff and this is highly important when you consider how crucial it is for many medical health professionals to use their hands.
Likewise it can help to protect them from hot water and this will ensure that they don't burn their skin while working.