A comment on gloving before applying direct pressure. Do It!
I was working on an open heart team in Georgia roughly 25 years ago and went to a blood born pathogens talk. The infectious disease doc speaking told of a nurse who applied direct pressure to a spurting wound in a local E.R. She later was diagnosed with HIV. She apparently contracted the virus through unbroken skin. She had no other risk factors for HIV.
I was walking down the hall of a telemetry nursing unit a couple of years ago and saw an elderly woman sitting on the side of her bed. She was naked, had pulled her Foley catheter, surgical dressing, and I.V. out and was smearing the blood from her arm on her body, face, hair. I ran in and applied direct pressure to her arm with her discarded gown while calling for help. Before the nurses got there, she managed to scratch my knuckle with her fingernail and break the skin. We both had blood drawn for antibodies and, fortunately, she was negative for anything of significance. If I had gloves available and wore them, I would have been saved the worry.