John A. Ervin, RN,BSN,MBA,CPC

High Reliability in the Operating Room

The healthcare industry has been focused on improving the quality of care and clinical outcomes for many years. Unfortunately, many patients still suffer from serious medical errors and process mistakes every day (Chassin &Loeb, 2013). Many of the mistakes occur in the operating room every day.

Reality of the OR

During my career as an operating room nurse, I have been involved with two surgical procedures where the sponge was left inside the patient’s body. Medical errors in the…