Site marking

[sharann]

Hi,

Who is responsible for the actual site marking pre-operatively. Does the floor nurse have to, or the OR nurse, or the preop nurse...?

Thanks

[ShirleyM]

but do you mark ears for ear tubes??

Where I work we mark the surgical site for every procedure. Our policy states that the only exception to the site marking is if surgery is being done on/in an orifice, ie., cysto. But our residents mark the abdomen, even for cysto. I guess they do that to avoid us 'nagging' on them.

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

We mark for ear tubes, because they're not always done bilaterally.