Dr. Heather Kooiker answers the five questions OR teams ask most, with evidence-based practice points and practical takeaways.Introduction Perioperative pressure injury prevention requires a different clinical lens than traditional inpatient pressure injury...
Preventing Intraoperative Pressure Injuries in the Operating Room: A Quick Reference Guide Advanced Strategies for the Surgical Phase of Care In Part 1 of this three-part series, we examined the financial and clinical burden of Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries...
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...
More than 50% of older surgical patients are thought to have malnutrition that is associated with increased postoperative complications, prolonged length of hospitalization and increased health care cost.The surgical patient is at a nutrition and fluid disadvantage...
The “Time Out” The “time out” is one part of the Universal Protocol developed by the Joint Commission to prevent wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-person surgery. Each are considered never events by the National Quality Forum and sentinel events by the Joint...
For individuals with physical disabilities receiving care at home, preventing pressure injuries (also known as pressure ulcers or bedsores) is not just important, it’s critical to maintaining health, comfort, and independence. As Susan Lipton Garber noted in the...
In the last blog we talked about compassion fatigue which is the emotional residue or strain of exposure to working with those suffering from the consequences of traumatic events. It differs slightly from burnout but can co-exist. Compassion Fatigue can occur due to...
Nursing shortages, burnout and compassion fatigue require nurses to practice self-care. Compassion Fatigue can occur with exposure to one case or can be due to a “cumulative” level of trauma. Compassion fatigue develops over time, taking weeks, sometimes years to...
Perioperative hypothermia can be associated with significant patient morbidity and mortality, Hart, Bordes, Hart, Corsino, & Harmon (2011) describe a threefold increase in the incidence of morbid cardiac outcomes, increases in surgical blood loss, a 20% increase...
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...
