Humanization of nursing care in the surgical center: challenges in its application

It is an integrative review of literature carried out in the databases BVS, LILACS, BDENF and SciELO, through the descriptors: patient safety; surgical nursing; surgery Center; perioperative nursing and nursing care. The objective of this study is to analyze the current scientific evidence regarding the practice of nurses in promoting the safety of the surgical patient that enables safe care with less occurrence of potentially preventable damages. For the definition of the sample for analysis, the following were used as eligibility criteria: full text, free access, main subject of patient safety, surgical nursing, surgical center, published in English or Portuguese between 2009 and 2019. The sample was composed of 20 studies. Data analysis demonstrated the importance of the role played by the nurse of the surgical center in patient safety, mainly in reducing errors and consequently avoidable damages to patients. For this, it was considered that the Safe Surgery Protocol is essential for the prevention of surgical errors and should be present in the daily routine of all teams, however, this has been underutilized, being a daily challenge of nursing its application.