Operating Room Nurses

Uses

Risks & contraindications

Highlighted claims

• Circulating nurses have an important coordination role across patients, surgeons, anaesthesiologists, equipment, and team stress. — Facilitators of and barriers to teamwork between operating room nurses and other practitioners: a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies
• Nurses may hesitate to raise patient safety concerns when speaking up is perceived as challenging authority. — Facilitators of and barriers to teamwork between operating room nurses and other practitioners: a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies
• Senior nurses' input may be ignored or belittled in hierarchical operating room cultures. — Facilitators of and barriers to teamwork between operating room nurses and other practitioners: a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies
• Operating room nurses may support teamwork by acting as patient advocates. — Facilitators of and barriers to teamwork between operating room nurses and other practitioners: a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies