Figure 1
The World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist.
Reprinted with permission from the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
AORN offers a comprehensive surgical checklist, included in its Correct Site Surgery Tool Kit,19 which is a valuable resource for perioperative nurses (Figure 2). This color-coded checklist integrates components from the WHO, the Universal Protocol™,20 and the National Patient Safety Goals.21 A more recent iteration of the WHO checklist has been developed in collaboration with the Safe Surgery 2015 campaign and the Harvard School of Public Health and incorporates additional check points, including briefing and debriefing sections to coincide with before induction of anesthesia, before skin incision, and before a patient leaves the room (Figure 3).22 Health care facilities have a variety of checklists to choose from in