AORN Journal· 2026Q2
Championing Quality and Safety Through Perioperative Nurse Advocacy
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Short summary
Perioperative nurses can overcome compliance barriers to evidence-based practices by engaging in legislative advocacy and policy change, ensuring optimal patient safety and outcomes.
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Key points
- Barriers to evidence-based practice compliance in perioperative nursing include organizational culture, knowledge deficits, and physician pushback.
- Non-compliance with evidence-based practices can result in patient safety events and suboptimal outcomes.
- Legislative advocacy and policy development are presented as solutions to overcome implementation barriers.
- Perioperative nurses should advocate in policy arenas to promote quality and safety improvements.
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Abstract
Perioperative nurses use evidence-based practice to achieve optimal outcomes when caring for patients. Translating evidence-based guidelines into practice, however, can be difficult, especially when barriers to compliance are present. Compliance barriers may arise from organizational culture, knowledge deficits, absence of policy, shortcuts, competing priorities, time constraints, physician pushback, or system-level barriers. When evidence-based practices are not followed, patient safety events and suboptimal outcomes may occur. This article addresses how legislative advocacy and policy provide solutions when barriers prevent full compliance or efforts fail. Even with organizational policy solutions, barriers to implementation may still exist. Perioperative nurses should therefore advocate in policy arenas to promote change that results in optimal quality and safety outcomes for themselves, their team, and their patients. Compliance, barriers, and advocacy are explored to navigate the intersections of policy, quality, and safety.
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