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CRITICAL ANALYSIS 2
Introduction
The perioperative nurse plays a crucial role in helping the surgical patients across the
healthcare continuum (Smith, Leslie & Wynaden, 2015). Therefore, a perioperative nurse is
required to adhere to all necessary precautions when handling the patients in the surgical ward.
The services provided by the perioperative nurse to the patients should align with health
domains. These health domains include the safety of the patient, behavioral responses, and
physiological responses (Smith et al., 2015). The safety of surgical patients is critical for their
quick recovery and during the operation. According to Smith et al. (2015), perioperative nurses
have to cooperate with other members of staff to prioritize the patient's safety, developing
nursing diagnoses, and pinpointing the desired outcomes. This paper will focus on the safety
issues regarding the surgical protocols performed on wrong body parts or patients, causing
deaths or significant long-term loss of functions.
Algie et al. (2015) indicate the possible complications from the prior researches as wrong
surgical sites, ways to prevent such issues, the risks, and the results of implementing the
interventions. One of the outcomes for implementing the responses is to help in reducing wrong-
site surgeries like wrong tooth extraction, among others.
The wrong-site surgery is a common term used in covering the surgical procedures done on the
wrong part of the patient’s body parts (Moturu, Howe & Tran, 2018). Wrong-site surgeries are
the cause of potential severe harms and damages that happen to patients. Hence, the need for the
surgical team in making efforts that aim at preventing wrong-site surgical incidences.
According to Tichanow (2016), it’s the responsibility of the perioperative nurse to
establish the safety measures that are done before conducting any surgical procedures on

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patients. Mostly, the wrong-site surgeries happen due to the incorporation of many surgeons on a
single patient (Gillespie et al., 2018). Hence, the need for observing the surgical processes and
procedures by an anesthesiology, surgical, and nursing residents in the operation room
(Tichanow, 2016). In some circumstances, the educational environment may fail to provide the
patient’s safety.
Additionally, wrong-site surgeries may occur due to distraction from phone calls,
beepers, text messages, and radios (Hempel et al., 2013). In other cases, the unprecedented
deadlines make it mandatory for the operation to be completed or started within a specific
allocated time-frame. According to Hempel et al. (2013), unusual human aspects like morbid
obesity, and physical deformities are parts of the issues that hinder surgical procedures. Besides,
the introduction of new surgical techniques and equipment can also result in surgical errors.
There is a need for training and supervising the surgeons on how to incorporate the new
procedures by more considerable experience individuals (Hempel et al., 2013). Surgical errors
also happen because of ignorance in training the surgical team on how to use the newly
introduced technology. When the new equipment is introduced, inspections and preliminary tests
are vital in revealing the proper functioning of the machine. Then the perioperative nurse should
be responsible for documenting the safety, warnings, and alarm of the new surgical equipment
(Engelhardt, Barnard & Bilimoria, 2017). The surgical team is also required to review the
information regarding the new instrument, especially the user manual and operation instruction,
before integrating it into the surgical procedures. Failure to perform the above procedures might
lead to surgical errors.
Stress and fatigue make healthcare givers in performing wrong-surgeries. For instance,
disruptions and lack of sleep inhibit the performance of medical practitioners. The surgical team