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...
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...
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...
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...
