JOURNAL

FOR
PERIOPERATIVE
MANAGEMENT

SOLIS, Genette M.
BSN-III D4
07/02/17
Sir Sherween Cacanando
 Strategies for Enhancing Perioperative Safety: Promoting Joy and Meaning in the
Workforce
Keeping patients safe is a challenging goal shared by all health care providers. In the perioperative
setting, care providers actions are guided by providing a safe experience for patients. A successful surgical
outcome occurs because of perioperative nurses and other team members whose expertise and knowledge
helps protect patients from harm. Promoting Joy and meaning in the workforce was needed to enhance the
service that they provide. HCPs must have comfortable working conditions, protection against an unsafe
working environment, social acceptance and belonging, self-esteem, and achievement to achieve the
desired health care services. It is somehow hard to achieve since there were different challenges that the
health care providers were facing such as poor behaviors (disrespectful, lack of teamwork, unsafe working
condition, lack of leadership and decision making skills of health care providers such as doctors and
nurses) that can cause undesired psychological and physiological effect to the patient. In this article, the
pioneer program was used to address the problems, achieve the joy and meaning and develop habitual
excellence at the same time. The program along with strategies tackles about adoption of institutional goal
to promote cultural safety, training that will improve leadership and management, communication and
teamwork and lastly, the use of good applications that will focus in each issue. Debriefing were used to
evaluate the goals of the program. It was also said in this journal that surgeries that occur without incidents
or near misses should be acknowledged and the team members should be recognized for excellence. This
acknowledgement should become a standard practice. Hospitals must support researches that will address
the problem of patients and health workers at the same time in order for the health care system to provide
an optimum health care that includes respect, transparency, accountability, learning, and quality care.
IMPLICATIONS
Nursing Practice: As a health care provider, as a future nurse it is my obligation to be respectful to my co-
workers and to my patients all the time. This research will remind the OR team that good relationship with
each other that includes teamwork and good communication are the recipes for an successful operation. In
addition, health care providers must assume a leadership role beyond their relationship with patients. A
nurse as a leader will nurture the development of his or her fellow health care providers and ensure
professional and ethical standards. Im also able to reflect in this journal, it taught me that as a student nurse
I need to give my best service not because of the professional fee that they offer but because this is what I
want and need to do. This journal help student nurses and nurses to find the joy and meaning of what theyre
doing.
Nursing Education: The enhancement of values such as respect, transparency, accountability and skills
such as leadership, teamwork and good communication must start in universities and colleges that offers
nursing and other medical related courses so that the student nurses will be more competent not just because
of the knowledge but because of the attitude.
Nursing Research: The study should also be conducted to all of the OR in the hospitals around the
Philippines so that we can know the issues or the problems that the Filipino OR teams and patients were
facing. The program in the article must be applied to the OR personnel here, in order for them to develop
the skills and values mentioned above.

REFERENCE:

Morath, J., Filipp, R., & Cull, M. (2014). Strategies for Enhancing Perioperative Safety: Promoting Joy and Meaning
in the Workforce. AORN Journal, 100(4), 376-389. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aorn.2014.01.027