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Knowledge is Power: Averting Safety‐Compromising Events in the OR
Author(s) -
Catalano Kathleen
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/j.aorn.2008.06.002
Subject(s) - patient safety , perioperative nursing , watchful waiting , perioperative , medicine , medical emergency , operating room nursing , health care , nursing , intensive care medicine , surgery , political science , prostate cancer , cancer , law
SURGICAL PROCEDURES can be unpredictable, and safety‐compromising events can jeopardize patient safety. PERIOPERATIVE NURSES should be watchful for factors that can contribute to safety‐compromising events, as well as the errors that can follow, and know how to avert them if possible. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER and increased awareness of patient safety issues and the resources that are available to both health care practitioners and consumers can help perioperative nurses ward off patient safety problems before they occur. AORN J 88 (December 2008) 987–995. © AORN, Inc, 2008.