Impact of the safe surgery educational program on the augmentation of surgical safety knowledge and skills among operating room nursing staff

Patient safety is a health care discipline that evolved as health care systems became more complicated, leading to an increase in patient harm in health care institutions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Safe Surgery Program in improving surgical safety knowledge and skills among Operation Theatre nurses. This study used a quasi-experimental pre-test-post-test control group design. This study was conducted at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Chidambaram. The non-probability convenient sampling method was employed to choose the samples for this study. This study included 60 operating theater nurses (30 in the experimental group and 30 in the control group) who met the inclusion criteria. Structured knowledge questionnaires and observational checklist were used to obtain the data. The study's findings demonstrated a substantial difference in the pre- and posttest levels of knowledge and skill between the experimental and control groups. As a result, the investigator discovered that implementing the Safe Surgery Program raised knowledge and competence levels.