12 Cleaning the incision

You have prepared your sterile field and are getting ready to clean the incision.

When cleaning an incision, use sterile solution and gentle friction, clean in the direction from least contaminated to the surrounding skin.

 

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Staple Removal Simulation Copyright © 2021 by Kelly Hudder R.N., M.Sc.N. and Victoria Reid-de Jong R.N., B.Sc.N., M.Sc., PhD (c) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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