Medline’s national surgical safety survey asked OR nurses to identify their top three OR safety challenges. Here are the top seven OR safety challenges based on more than 2,000 nurses’ responses:
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1. Wrong-site surgery (65 percent)
2. Surgical site infections (63 percent)
3. Retained surgical objects (60 percent)
4. Sharps and needle sticks (43 percent) — Sixty-five percent of respondents have experienced a sharps injury in the OR, according to the survey
5. Managing normothermia (30 percent)
6. Perioperative pressure ulcers (27 percent)
7. Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (15 percent)
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