Please write a paragraph responding to the discussion bellow. Add citations and references in alphabetical order.

For an Operating Room Nurse patient safety is first and foremost. Our patients are asleep and vulnerable. They are laying in positions for hours sometimes and cannot adjust themselves to prevent cramps, nerve damage and pressure wounds. The first area that evidence based practice has improved patient outcomes is positioning equipment , proper training and ongoing teaching . Research proves that the patient’s anatomic and physiological alterations need to be identified, associated with the type of anesthesia, procedure type and surgical time he/she will be submitted to, so that the positioning is adequate and does not cause postoperative complications. Positioning equipment assists in keeping the patient in a neutral position much like they would be if awake , padded a t all bony prominences or areas of constant pressure a nd prevent damage to their nerves, joints, back and skin (AORN, 2017) .

The second area that evidence based practice has improved outcomes for operating room patients is with prep solution and Operating Room fires. We use a produced called Chlora -prep that has an alcohol base. The company for Chlora -prep states and we receive constant in-servicing that the product needs 3 full minutes dry time to reduce the flammability of the product . In addition to the dry time of 3 minutes, there should be no pooling of the prep solution on the skin which is a common factor in previous OR fires. W hen the cautery pencil (ignition source) , which is used to control bleeding makes contact with skin bearing the prep solution (fuel) , most specifically when it is wet there is an extremely high risk of fire. ( Jones, et.al., 2017).

References

5 Practice Updates for Safer Positioning (2017). Association of Operating Room Nurses. Retrieved from www.aorn.org

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