The Development and Implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist on Knowledge and Compliance of Nurses at the Central Surgical Installation of Bethesda Hospital Yogyakarta 2020

Background: One of the services provided by the hospital is surgery in the operating room carried out by a team of doctors and nurses. The application of the Surgical Safety Checklist adopted from the World Health Organization (WHO) is used in the operating room to increase the safety of operations and reduce errors in surgical procedures.

Goals: To find out the development and implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist on Nurse compliance at the Central Surgical Installation of Bethesda Hospital Yogyakarta.

Research Methods: This research is a mixed method. The sample in this study were all nurses who served in the operating room at the Central Surgical Installation of Bethesda Hospital Yogyakarta, consisting of 40 respondents as instrument nurses, circular nurses and anesthesia nurses. The data that had been collected were then analyzed using the Fisher exact test statistical test.

Research Result: There is a significant relationship between work tenure and knowledge p = 0.048 (p <0.05). There is a significant relationship between age and work tenure on compliance with the application of the Surgical Safety Checklist (p <0.05). There is a significant relationship between knowledge and compliance p = 0.0001 (p <0.05).

Conclusion: The development and application of the Surgical Safety Checklist on the level of knowledge and compliance of nurses at Bethesda Hospital Yogyakarta, the majority in the good category and the implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist has been running optimally. Bethesda Hospital is developing electronic medical records, on process medical and nursing assessment, Integrated Patient Progress Record (CPPT), and nursing care, response from the implementation of the new version of SSC is quite good.