Near Miss Reporting Tool
SafetyNet is AORN’s anonymous reporting system to improve patient safety in perioperative settings. It is a voluntary reporting tool that captures data about close calls and near misses in surgical and procedural settings. SafetyNet is securely designed to promote confidentiality and anonymity with AORN serving as the repository for the data.
AORN believes by providing nurses with a safe harbor and easy method for reporting perioperative close calls and near misses, they will be more encouraged to identify gaps in the patient care process. The data will be aggregated, organized, and analyzed to serve as a basis for the development of new perioperative practice standards, procedures, and educational programs with a focus on improving patient safety in surgical and procedural environments.
All types of events may be reported to SafetyNet including "close calls" (events or situations that could have resulted in accident, injury or illness if left undetected) and "lessons-learned."
Suggested near-miss topics:
- Adverse drug events in perioperative setting
- Blood transfusions resulting in sentinel events
- Communication breakdown
- Consent issues
- Fires in the OR
- Implant availability
- Incorrect patient
- Incorrect procedure
- Incorrect site
- Nurse staffing and patient outcome scenarios
- Patient hand off problems
- Research protocol
- Retained foreign body
- Sterility
- Technology malfunction
Please consider submitting your personal experiences with a near miss or close call to help AORN inform perioperative nurses of these concerns. All information submitted will remain confidential. AORN does not reply to SafetyNet submissions.
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