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Nurses Are Great Role Models
Have you heard of the “Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™" and their Grand Challenge? It is an initiative to connect and engage nurses, employers, and organizations around improving health in five areas: physical activity, nutrition, rest, quality of life, and safety....
What To Do When You Are On Your Feet For Hours At a Time
An Action Products blog devoted to mind and body self-care strategies for those on their feet all day. Nursing is hard on the feet. Your feet take a pounding while you are standing or racing in and out of the O.R. or supply room. Fortunately, your feet are amazing...
Simple Yoga Moves For Nurses On The Go!
Maintaining a calm, compassionate attitude is a vital nursing skill. Many perioperative nurses will tell you that this can be quite challenging with so many fires to put out during a shift. What to do to keep calm and carry on? Here are some simple yoga moves to...
Do These Simple Yoga Moves At Work!
Reducing muscle tension is an important part of self-care for all healthcare professionals, especially OR nurses. Perioperative nurses often strain muscles in three stress-prone areas: back, shoulders and neck. In keeping with our own company’s long-term commitment...
New Detection Technology For Deep Tissue Injuries – A Case Study
Given our commitment to the prevention of pressure injuries, at Action Products we took note of an important case study from the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana (as reported in Wound Care Advisor.) The case study, authored by Todd Zortman, RN, WCC, and James Malec,...
Nurses – Take Action Against Bullying & Workplace Violence! Important Resources
This is the final installment of a three-part series that we created to provide nurses with the resources they need to educate and better prepare themselves to deal with bullying and violence in the workplace.“While the American Nurses Association provides vital...