Nursing interventions that affect safety in the operating room

Abstract

The operating room (OR) is a place requires close and careful attention. Nurses play an indispensable role in the OR and influence the success of an operation. We chose to write our thesis on this topic to help nursing students study what nursing interventions can affect patients’ safety in the OR.

In this Bachelor’s thesis, several nursing interventions that affect the patient safety in the OR will be reviewed. The purpose of this thesis is to study what nursing interventions affect patient safety in the OR. The aim of this thesis is to help nursing students who want to be, or will become OR nurses be more vigilant toward patient safety in the OR. The research question of our thesis is what nursing interventions affect the patient safety in the OR.

The thesis was conducted as a qualitative research study. Data was collected through the formal academic database with keywords. We explain basic concepts by researching and studying related websites and books. We studied aforementioned articles to find answers to our research problem. Wrong-site, wrong-procedure, wrong-patient errors, retained foreign bodies, medication and anesthesia errors, risks of a puncture are four essences that negatively affect patient safety in the OR. In order to reduce these hazards, OR nurses can use the surgical safety checklist, effective communication, aseptic technique and infection prevention as nursing interventions.