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Proning The ICU Patient
Proning the ICU patient isn’t for the faint of heart, it takes planning, communication, collaboration and coordination and an OR nurse. It takes a team of 6-8 depending on the size of the patient to safely transfer that patient into the prone position. The key word in...
A “Thank you” to our healthcare workers near and far from Action Products
Action Products would like to send a thank you to our partners and customers locally and worldwide for their dedication in helping others during this challenging time. For 50 years we have been serving the healthcare industry and we have seen firsthand the ongoing...
Take a Stand: No More Violence toward Healthcare workers
The CDC National Institute Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) defines workplace violence as “violent acts (including physical assaults and threats of assaults) directed towards persons at work or on duty”. The U.S. Department of Labor defines workplace violence as...
Nurses Association Urges Nurses to Take the Pledge and Report Workplace Violence
Hospital violence is an important and ongoing issue. As advocates for nurses over many decades, Action Products would like to use the next two blog posts not only make readers aware of problems involving violence and abuse towards and among healthcare workers, but to...
Geriatrics Requires Compassionate, Consistent, and Creative Nursing
“The primary function of a gerontology nurse is to collaborate with patients, the local community and families in order to deliver the highest possible quality of life to the elderly,” ...explains bestmasterofscienceinnursing.com, naming five specific characteristics...
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...
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...
