"AORN says you can’t wear nail polish at all."
Jamie nodded slowly. "Why do you stay? Nineteen years of this?" aorn guidelines for perioperative practice
"Guideline IV.B.3," Sarah said quietly. "All medications and solutions used on the sterile field must be transferred in a sterile, labeled manner, and verification must occur between the circulator and the person receiving the medication. We didn’t verify. We assumed." "AORN says you can’t wear nail polish at all
Sarah looked through the window into the empty OR. The lights were off now. The table was bare. But she could still see the ghost of every patient who had lain there. Some who lived. A few who didn’t. And every single one of them had been guarded by a nurse who chose to follow the guidelines not because they were easy, but because they were true . "All medications and solutions used on the sterile