Introduction:

During surgeries complications and deaths occur, which can be preventable, this circumstance led the World Health Organization to establish a safe surgery checklist, which must be applied to reduce possible risks and promote patient safety during surgery.

Objective:

To identify the relationship between the application of the safe surgery checklist and its usefulness according to the opinion of the nurses.

Methods:

Quantitative study, correlational and cross-sectional design, carried out in the operating room of the National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases, Lima - Peru, from September to October 2018, the study population made up of 46 nurses, the techniques used were observation and poll; the instruments the questionnaire and observation list, the questionnaire was validated by 8 experts and a pilot test, had a Crombach alpha of 0.731. The watchlist was developed by the World Health Organization. The data were processed through the Excel program, in order to carry out the analysis of frequencies and percentages, the chi square test was applied to identify the relationship between the study variables.

Results:

When applying the Chi square statistical test, it was evident that there is no relationship between both variables (p > 0.06); 66.00 % of nursing professionals consider it to be useful and 56.50 % apply the safe surgery checklist.

Conclusions:

No relationship was found between the application of the safe surgery checklist and its usefulness according to the nurses' opinion.

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