Another feeling our the crowd post "cross contamination"

My wife was getting her wisdom teeth out and I went in post surgery. While in the room the nurse was taking off her monitors and IV. The thing I noticed was instead of using the foot lever to open the trash can she used her hands(with gloves) but went back to tending my wife including removing the IV after touching the trash can lid many times.


I am decently paranoid about cross contamination and wondering if this is an issue or normal. If she touches the can after every patient the gloves become useless in protecting the patient.

Another feeling our the crowd post "cross contamination"