Self-Donning Sterile Gloves

* Learning Engineering Design Through an Everyday Problem in Healthcare Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are one of the most critical threats to patient safety, affecting one out of every 31 hospital patients at any one time. The point here is to get students thinking about the spread of disease through bacteria and other pathogens and how medical staff use personal protective equipment (PPE) to prevent the spread of pathogens. Once students have a clear understanding of the design problem, present them with this problem statement: "Your goal is to re-engineer packaging for sterile gloves to make it easier for health professionals to selfdon." Again, for those students unfamiliar with engineering design, indicate that constraints are the limits or metrics they will use to determine if their prototype has met design criteria and also to determine testing procedures for prototypes.