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Yolanda works at the Tough Teeth Dental Clinic as an assistant to Dr. Hassan. The safety manual for their office includes the following instructions regarding the use of dental instruments.

All instruments should be used for their intended purposes only.
Gloves and a mask should be worn when using surgical power tools and lasers.
Wearing a fluid-resistant gown is required to work with samples in the laboratory.
A mask should be worn to load instruments into a sterilizer, but is not needed to remove them. Gloves should be worn to complete both tasks.
Yolanda needs to remove clean instruments from the sterilizer. According to the manual, what safety measure should she follow?

She needs to wear gloves only.
She needs to put on a fluid-resistant gown.
She needs to wear both gloves and a mask.
She does not need to wear protective gear.

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She needs to wear gloves only.

The manual says a mask is needed to load the sterilizer but not to remove instruments, while gloves are required for both loading and removing.