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 May 6th and ends on May 12th, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. The American Nurses Association chose “4 million Reasons to Celebrate” as the 2019 theme for National Nurses Week. The theme was selected to recognize and celebrate the enormous contributions of America’s four million registered nurses. This week is a time for all of us to thank the registered nurses who have made a heartfelt impact on us personally and throughout our communities.

Registered nurses play an important role in promoting health and wellness. Action Products, Inc. would like to thank registered nurses for their contributions, insights, suggestions and knowledge as together we strive to continuously develop products needed to ensure patient safety.

Enhancing Patient Safety with Viscoelastic Gel Overlays in Surgical Positioning

by The Action Products Team | July 29, 2025 | Action Products, Decubitus Ulcer Prevention, Gel Pad, Gel Positioner, Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers, Inc., Patient Positioning, Positioning The Patient, Pressure Injury, Pressure Redistribution, Pressure Sore, Pressure Sore Prevention, Pressure Ulcer Education, Pressure Ulcer Management, Surgery Patient Positioning, Surgical Patient Safety, Viscoelastic Polymer, Wound Prevention | 0 Comments

Surgical nurses play a critical role in protecting patients from positioning-related pressure injuries during surgical procedures. One of the most effective tools to support this mission is the viscoelastic gel overlay, a material designed to reduce pressure, enhance...

Take the Time for a “Time Out”

by The Action Products Team | June 11, 2025 | Action Products, Inc., Surgical Patient Safety | 0 Comments

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...

Pressure Injuries in Ambulatory Surgical Centers

by The Action Products Team | June 11, 2025 | Action Products, Decubitus Ulcer Prevention, Gel Pad, Gel Positioner, Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers, Inc., Patient Positioning, Positioning The Patient, Pressure Injury, Pressure Redistribution, Pressure Sore, Pressure Sore Prevention, Pressure Ulcer Education, Pressure Ulcer Management, Surgery Patient Positioning, Surgical Patient Safety, Viscoelastic Polymer, Wound Prevention | 0 Comments

An ambulatory surgical center (ASC) is a healthcare facility that focuses on providing same-day surgical care that includes diagnostic and preventative surgery. When looking at the ASC, it has transformed the outpatient surgical experience for millions of Americans by...

Gel Overlays: A Head-to-Toe Tool in the Prevention of Perioperative Pressure Injuries

by The Action Products Team | May 1, 2025 | Action Products, Decubitus Ulcer Prevention, Gel Pad, Gel Positioner, Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers, Inc., Patient Positioning, Positioning The Patient, Pressure Injury, Pressure Redistribution, Pressure Sore, Pressure Sore Prevention, Pressure Ulcer Education, Pressure Ulcer Management, Surgery Patient Positioning, Surgical Patient Safety, Viscoelastic Polymer, Wound Prevention | 0 Comments

Amos Schonrock, MAN, RN, ST, PHN, CSSM, CNAMB, CNOR, NE-BCPerioperative Practice and Safety SpecialistAs perioperative professionals, the operating room team has a constant dedication and calling to the creation and maintenance of an environment that keeps our patient...

Supine Positioning: Enhanced Approaches to a Common Surgical Routine

Amos Schonrock, MAN, RN, ST, PHN, CSSM, CNAMB, CNOR, NE-BCPerioperative Practice and Safety SpecialistOne of the highly common surgical positions is supine. This approach involves the surgical team’s watchful eyes to oversee a patient that will lie on their back with...

Pressure Injuries: Protect your Patients in Extreme Surgical Positions

by The Action Products Team | April 22, 2025 | Action Products, Decubitus Ulcer Prevention, Gel Pad, Gel Positioner, Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers, Inc., Patient Positioning, Positioning The Patient, Pressure Injury, Pressure Redistribution, Pressure Sore, Pressure Sore Prevention, Pressure Ulcer Education, Pressure Ulcer Management, Surgery Patient Positioning, Surgical Patient Safety, Viscoelastic Polymer, Wound Prevention | 0 Comments

Some surgical procedures require extreme positioning to ensure that the targeted surgical area is accessible to the surgeon and the surgical team. Extreme positioning requires extreme positioning devices, manufactured to meet the need for surgical access....

Safe Lateral Position for Improved Team and Patient Outcomes

by The Action Products Team | April 20, 2025 | Action Products, Inc., Patient Positioning, Positioning The Patient, Surgery Patient Positioning, Surgical Patient Safety | 0 Comments

The lateral surgical position is one of the most labor-intensive surgical positions that depends on brute force and team strength. The lateral position is not only physically taxing on the staff, but also can be as hard on the patient; therefore, it is important to...

Pressure Injuries in the Neonatal Population

by The Action Products Team | April 18, 2025 | Action Products, Decubitus Ulcer Prevention, Gel Pad, Gel Positioner, Inc., Pediatric Positioning, Pressure Sore, Pressure Sore Prevention, Pressure Ulcer Education, Pressure Ulcer Management, Surgery Patient Positioning, Surgical Patient Safety, Viscoelastic Polymer, Wound Prevention | 0 Comments

Typically, when we think of skin injury prevention in the acute care setting, we think of that immobile, post trauma, geriatric or surgical patient. There is a plethora of literature and research around the subject yet each year, more than 2.5 million people in the...

Protect the Heels with Evidence Based Interventions

by The Action Products Team | April 10, 2025 | Action Products, Decubitus Ulcer Prevention, Gel Pad, Gel Positioner, Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers, Inc., Patient Positioning, Positioning The Patient, Pressure Injury, Pressure Redistribution, Pressure Sore, Pressure Sore Prevention, Pressure Ulcer Education, Pressure Ulcer Management, Surgery Patient Positioning, Surgical Patient Safety, Viscoelastic Polymer, Wound Prevention | 0 Comments

The supine position is the most common surgical position with the patient lying on their back with the head, neck and spine in a neutral position. This position is not without pressure injury risk as there is increased pressure and shear forces to the scapula,...

Pressure Injuries: A Never Event, Part 3

by The Action Products Team | April 4, 2025 | Action Products, Decubitus Ulcer Prevention, Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers, Inc., Pressure Injury, Pressure Sore, Pressure Sore Prevention, Pressure Ulcer Education, Pressure Ulcer Management, Surgery Patient Positioning, Surgical Patient Safety, Wound Prevention | 0 Comments

Protecting Your Patient from a Perioperative Skin Injury through Post Anesthesia Care Unit to the Inpatient Floor The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel and Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance reports that hospital-acquired...

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