SEGURANÇA DO PACIENTE: UMA VISÃO AMPLIADA DO ENFERMEIRO NO CENTRO CIRÚRGICO

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Patient safety in the Surgical Center is essential, even more so as it is an environment with particularities, requiring the development of strategies to ensure patient well-being, such as the checklist. In this sense, the nurse has the competence to promote the safety of surgical patients, identify risks, point out solutions to improve quality control and the assistance provided pre-operatively, intra-operatively and post-operatively. Objective: To identify the difficulties of the nurse's role in patient safety focusing on care in the surgical center. Materials and Methods: This study is a bibliographical, narrative review and qualitative approach. With the publication period between 2019 and 2023, on platforms on the Virtual Health Library portal, Scielo and Google Scholar. Result and Discussion: The implementation of the checklist and quality control ends up being a challenge for nursing, making it necessary to involve the entire team in order to be able to provide quality care. Conclusion: The nurse is directly involved in ensuring safety and quality in the provision of services with minimal risk. Furthermore, using the checklist is a way to promote this objective. However, he notes that there are several barriers that prevent the implementation of this instrument in the surgical center, making it necessary to create strategies to promote adherence and thus reduce adverse events, complications, mortality and in order to promote effectiveness in surgery.

Key words: Nurse; Patient safety; Surgery Center; Quality control.