PROFESSIONAL NURSE’S PERCEPTION ABOUT THE PATIENT’S SAFETY IN SURGERY CENTER

Abstract

In the last decade, the concern about patient’s safety became frequent for all the health area in all its dimensions, being high risk environments the main center of attention for occurrence of adverse events, as it is the surgery center. This way, this study had the objective to describe the perception of the professional nurse about the patient’s safety in surgery center. It was designed a descriptive, exploratory and field study, with quali-quantitative approach, performed by 7 nurses who acted in a Unit of the Surgery Center of a Hospital located in the interior of the Stated of São Paulo. Regarding the results, the nurses highlighted: the main adverse events/incidents/failures which may happen in the Surgery Center; the factors that contribute to their occurrences; the strategies to prevent them; the perception about the safe surgery checklist and the SAEP, besides positive and negative aspects related to work in the study institution, aiming at the patient’s safety. As a conclusion, nurses, according to the perception presented in this study, need specific training and update programs related to handling patient’s security. Besides that, it was verified the necessity to reconsider how the process of building and implantation of protocols is being executed, which have the objective to guide the execution of actions in a safe way.