Key result
Perioperative nurses prioritized leading and coordinating patient positioning, ensuring patient safety, and promoting efficient use of OR nurses' expertise.
Why the study?
Patient positioning aims to provide optimal surgical site exposure and prevent negative outcomes, but perioperative nurses' experiences positioning patients required exploration.
This qualitative study highlights the need to define formal responsibilities and verify competence for patient positioning among OR nurses to ensure patient safety.
Supports defining OR nurse roles in positioning for safety; leaves open quantitative validation of competence standards.
The purpose of patient positioning is to provide optimal surgical site exposure for surgical team members and prevent negative patient outcomes. This study explores perioperative nurses' experiences when positioning patients for surgery. We collected data using focus group interviews of 17 OR nurses in Norway and used qualitative content analysis to analyze the data. The study findings showed that perioperative nurses emphasized their most important priorities as concepts that can be categorized into three themes: leading and coordinating patient positioning, ensuring patient safety, and promoting efficient use of OR nurses' expertise. The study findings also identify a need to define formal responsibilities in patient positioning and processes for determining positioning outcomes. Perioperative leaders should verify OR nurse competence for patient positioning to help ensure continuity and safety in complex patient pathways.
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Brooker et al. (2020) studied Patient positioning for surgery (n=17). Patient positioning experiences was evaluated on Themes of patient positioning priorities. Perioperative nurses prioritized leading and coordinating patient positioning, ensuring patient safety, and promoting efficient use of OR nurses' expertise.
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