Skin Prep: Effective Ways to Refine Your Protocols

All surgical facilities have “skin in the game” when it comes to SSI prevention. SSIs can be reduced when leaders standardize the preoperative skin preparation solutions and protocols their OR teams use See why you should make skin prep a yearly competency to reduce SSIs. 

Karen deKay, MSN, RN, CNOR, CIC, senior perioperative practice specialist with the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), led efforts to update the Preoperative Patient Skin Antisepsis Guideline in May 2021.

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