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Reducing Hypothermia in the OR
Our first two posts for July have focused on the importance of preventing an unhealthy RISE in Home Healthcare patients’ body temperature, preventing heat stroke, muscle cramps, and pressure injuries. Our third blog focuses on the hospital O.R. setting, where the...
Home Healthcare—Keeping Older Adults Safe in Hot Weather
Managing heat and humidity in the summer is a priority for everyone; for older adult home healthcare patients, it’s a lifesaving necessity. Every summer, healthinaging.org reports, nearly 200 Americans die of health problems caused by high heat and humidity; most are...
Geriatric Nursing Care Requires Effective Communication
When researchers at the Future of Nursing Campaign for Action discovered large gaps between what academia thought training nurses needed and what would actually be expected of those nurses in their first nursing positions, one issue had to do with language. At Action...
The Need for Geriatric Nursing Care in America
“The increased proportion of older adults in the population need not present major problems,” authors Bennett and Flaherty-Robb assure readers of the Online Journal of issues in Nursing (OJIN) There’s a big IF at the end of that sentence, however: “IF we can provide...
Geriatric Nursing Care in the Home Setting
At Action Products, where we take great pride in our ongoing role in geriatric nursing products, we are devoting this blog series to geriatric home healthcare. Geriatric home health care, designed to help older adults live independently for as long as possible, even...
Studies Yield Insight into Team Communication in the OR
Medical errors in the perioperative setting more often result from miscommunication among providers than from lack of medical knowledge or technology failures. Four studies serve to highlight the importance of implementing measures to improve team communication in...
Team Communication at the Speed of Thought
“The common goal of the perioperative team within the operating room is the effective delivery of care in a safe, efficient, timely manner,” Ruth LeTexier, RN, BASN, PHN, director of surgical technology at Northwest Technical College in Minnesota writes in Infection...
Improving Patient Care Through Team Communication
“The evolution in health care and a global demand for quality patient care necessitate a parallel health care professional development with a great focus on a patient centered teamwork approach,” observe the authors of a paper published by the Sudanese Association of...
Celebrate National Nurses Week
Celebrate National Nurses Week by Thanking your favorite Nurse! Action Products, Inc. would like to thank Rochelle Froloff our OR Nurse Consultant for over 30 years of dedicated service in helping to prevent pressure injuries! National Nurses Week begins each year on...
Action Products, Inc. Attends the 2019 AORN EXPO
The AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo will be held April 6-10, 2019 in Nashville, TN. This year's focus is Harmonized Care: the Key to Safety. It is the largest Gathering of Perioperative Professionals in the World with over 5,600 executives, directors,...
