Perioperative team members work together to keep personnel and patients safe by following
facility policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and perioperative guidelines. By …

Ensuring patient safety requires collaboration between all members of the surgical team,
which includes personnel in the sterile processing department. It is important that employees …

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization's (JCAHO's) national
patient safety goals became effective Jan 1, 2003.(1) These goals apply to all JCAHO …

Operating room safety is dependent on professional and regulatory requirements that
mandate skill levels, documentation standards, monitoring, and equipment. Protocols exist …

Context: Increased media attention on surgical procedures that were performed on the
wrong anatomic site or wrong patient has prompted the health care industry to identify and …

OBJECTIVE The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory provides timely original scientific
evidence and reviews of scientific evidence that can be used by healthcare systems and …

Objective: To increase patient safety in the perioperative setting, our objective was to create
a climate of improved communication, collaboration, team-work, and situational awareness …

Offering a concise yet comprehensive review of current practices in surgery and patient
safety, Handbook of Perioperative and Procedural Patient Safety is an up-to date, practical …

et al. 2006: 1578). However, since teamwork is more than task work, merely forming a group
with the above characteristics does not ensure that a team will function effectively …

Every perioperative team member has a scope of practice that describes the services a
person is legally allowed to perform. Although the scope of practice of the different …