A nurse is preparing to change a sterile dressing on a patient's surgical wound. After performing hand hygiene and donning clean gloves to remove the soiled dressing, what should the nurse do next to maintain infection control principles?
- Remove gloves, perform hand hygiene, and don sterile gloves before applying the new dressing
- Apply the new sterile dressing immediately without removing gloves
- Remove gloves and apply hand sanitizer over the contaminated gloves before donning sterile gloves
- Keep the same gloves on and rinse them with sterile saline before applying the new dressing