Good practices in the use of the safe surgery checklist by nurses in the transoperative period

Abstract

The aim was to analyze the use of the safe surgery checklist by nurses; describe results on the use of the safe surgery checklist presented in the literature from 2015 to 2020. It was a literature review, based on 20 articles, published between 2015 and 2020, and protocols from the Ministry of Health. Three sub-chapters emerged that responded to the proposed objectives, being described respectively as: - Adherence to Safe Surgeries; - Good practices to make Surgery Safe, and - Nursing and the Use of Checklist in Safe Surgery. Many studies have been noticed in the last two decades with the objective of restricting adverse events in surgeries, with great difficulty in the creation of a safety culture that contributes to the implementation of checklists. In this sense, Nursing is seen as having an important role for its validation and insertion, based on the scientific method, and anchored in the nursing process, to promote better practices and safer surgeries.