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My Turn
Getting Tough with Wrong-Site Surgery
Linda Groah, RN, MS, CNOR

In recent years, establishing no-blame culture has become a popular practice in surgical healthcare. It means that if a sentinel event occurs - such as a wrong-site surgery, a nosocomial infection or a medication error - the facility should look at the event as a systematic failure rather than as the fault of one or several individuals.

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