@article{ref1,
title="Guidelines in practice: a safe environment of care",
journal="AORN journal",
year="2024",
author="Kneisley, Melissa",
volume="119",
number="5",
pages="340-347",
abstract="Creating a safe environment for performing surgical procedures is essential to achieve successful patient outcomes and protect the perioperative personnel who are providing care. Numerous factors challenge the provision of a safe environment of care and create a complex setting for perioperative nurses to manage. The updated AORN &quot;Guideline for a safe environment of care&quot; provides perioperative nurses with recommendations for establishing a safe environment for both patients and personnel. This article provides an overview of the guideline and discusses recommendations for implementing fire safety protocols, using warming cabinets, and creating a latex-safe environment. It also includes a scenario describing the care of a patient with an unidentified latex allergy who is undergoing a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and hiatal hernia repair. Perioperative nurses should review the guideline in its entirety and implement recommendations as applicable in operative and other procedural settings.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-2092",
doi="10.1002/aorn.14125",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aorn.14125"
}