Should nurses be allowed to perform the pre-operative surgical site marking instead of surgeons? A prospective feasibility study at a Swiss primary care teaching hospital.

CONCLUSION: Surgical site marking can be performed by trained nurses. However, the attending surgeon remains fully responsible of the correct operation on the correct patient. PMID: 28392834 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28392834?dopt=Abstract

Source: Patient Safety in Surgery - April 12, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Schäfli-Thurnherr J, Biegger A, Soll C, Melcher GA Tags: Patient Saf Surg Source Type: research