Uniform Advantage Color Psychology Guide for Nursing Uniforms

How do your patients view you when you wear a particular color scrub uniform? Approachable, caring, friendly or standoffish and inattentive? When you enter their room with a colorful scrub or one with prints, you see and feel the effects of the scrub colors on you and your immediate environment. It can lift their spirits and they are more open and comfortable with you versus dark colors that are cold and cause them to change their attitudes toward you negatively.

All You Need to Know About Dermatillomania

Dermatillomania is a compulsive, often detrimental habit that is characterized by the repeated urge to pick at one’s own skin — often to the extent of tissue damage and scarring. In terms of prevalence, an estimated 1.4 to 5.4 percent of the general population is afflicted with this condition, with women accounting for the majority (at 86 percent).

Mitral Regurgitation

Mitral Regurgitation is a common heart valve disorder in which the mitral valve does not close properly. As a result, blood traveling through the human heart “leaks” backward from the left ventricle into the left atrium. Learn more about Mitral Regurgitation in this infographic.

Household Germs That Can Kill

Here is a useful infographic by Master Cleaners that teaches us all about the most dangerous germs that can be found in the home, with the 4 most dangerous household germs are MRSA, E. Coli 0157, Novovirus and C. Difficile.

Does Coffee Cause Cancer and Other Myths

As reported by the Guardian, around a 10th of adults mistakenly believe that coffee can cause cancer, when in fact, there is no evidence to confirm a relationship. New research highlights how many people consider the myth to be fact, and as a response, here is an infographic to shed light on other popular fallacies.