Donning gloves before retrieving anything from a toilet bowl in a hospital would seem to be a safe procedure.
Exactly - which seems that it WASN’T an accident. An accident would be the nurse or the patient in the shared area wanting to use the toilet.
The nurse donning gloves before she goes in may have meant she knew the fetus was there. (Told/asked to help by the other nurse? “A woman just had a misscarriage in her toilet in Room 313. Can you help me retrieve the baby? I’m going to get the container.”) The nurse looks in the toilet and thinks “Harumph - that’s no baby, that’s just some human tissue.” FLUSH.
I agree. The poster thought maybe when the nurse went in and flushed the toilet that she didn’t know what was in the toilet. The nurse came into the room, put on gloves and then proceeded to flush the toilet. You do not just walk into a room and decide to flush a toilet- she must have known was was in the toilet- thus the gloves.