Medication safety in surgery. Error risk areas and improvements proposed by the nurses

UNLABELLED: We describe the process of implementation of improvements for patient safety in the administration of medication in the operating room. OBJECTIVES: To know the weaknesses of the operating room that can contribute to an incident related to the medication and the administration of intravenous fluids in the operating room, and to place improvement strategies to reduce or prevent errors based on the experiences of the nurses. METHOD: Qualitative consensus by expert nurses group and questionnaire about the levels of risk that they attribute to each of the categories of analysis. We explore their experiences about safety in the operating room and their proposals for controlling medication errors. RESULTS: We identified as areas of greatest risk the providers, the prescription and the processing, as well as the weaknesses of the professional culture of patient safety and improvement proposals.