Surgical Care Improvement Project and the Perioperative Nurse's Role

ABSTRACT
• THE SURGICAL CARE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (SCIP) was formed by a partnership of national organizations with the goal of reducing surgical complications by 25% by 2010.
• THE FOCUS OF THE SCIP INITIATIVE includes four key components that perioperative health care workers can address in reducing the morbidity and mortality of surgical patients.
• BY IMPLEMENTING SCIP QUALITY measures, hospitals could prevent an estimated 13,000 patient deaths and 271,000 surgical complications each year. AORN J 86 (July 2007)94-101. © AORN, Inc, 2007.