Surgical integrity is the use of sterile technique while performing surgical procedures on a patient. It is vital to use surgical integrity when caring for patients because; one wrong decision may lead to serious injury or death of the patient. Many nurses face barriers when implementing surgical integrity in their routine. Their choices are distorted when having to having to think about saving money, saving time, or even being punished. The result of this is a decrease in the quality of care of the patient.
The article Difficulties in intraoperative care, discusses situations when nurses have to choose between obeying their superiors, and or hospitals and insurance policies, over patient quality care. One of the barriers nurses faced in the
