- Provide thin liquids
- Place the patient in a supine position
- Ensure the patient is upright and offer small, frequent bites, checking for pockets of food
- Rush the feeding process
Category: Clinical Practicum
- Explore the content of the voices, specifically if they are commanding harm to self or others
- Tell them the voices are not real
- Ignore the voices
- Document the voices and proceed as usual
- Aesthetic appearance of the foot
- Risk of infection and potential amputation
- Minor skin irritation
- Decreased mobility
- Stop the primary infusion, flush, administer medication, flush, and restart infusion
- Administer the medication directly into the primary infusion bag
- Administer the medication without flushing
- Administer the medication very slowly
- Discontinue the medication if seizures stop
- Take the medication only when a seizure is felt coming on
- Take the medication consistently as prescribed to maintain therapeutic levels
- Double the dose if a seizure occurs
- Begin chest compressions and call for help
- Call the physician only
- Wait for the code team
- Start an IV line
- MMSE
- PHQ-9 or Beck Depression Inventory
- GAD-7
- CAGE questionnaire
- Only the pain intensity
- Location, intensity, quality, onset, duration, aggravating/alleviating factors
- Only the medication administered
- Only the patient's emotional response
- Antipsychotics
- Mood stabilizers
- Benzodiazepines
- Antidepressants (e.g., SSRIs)
- Daily blood pressure monitoring
- Weekly CBC (Complete Blood Count) monitoring
- Daily weight monitoring
- Monthly liver function tests
- Maintain confidentiality at all costs
- Assess for specific threats, plan, and means, and initiate duty to warn/protect protocols if applicable
- Advise them to seek legal divorce
- Tell them to calm down
- A normal finding
- A sign of infection
- A patent arteriovenous (AV) fistula/graft
- A DVT
- Engage in verbal de-escalation for 30 minutes
- Call for assistance, ensure safety of all, and consider physical restraint or rapid tranquilization as per protocol
- Yell at the patient to stop
- Leave the patient alone in the room
- Increased risk of hypertension
- Increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding
- Increased risk of constipation
- Decreased effectiveness of ibuprofen
- Hyperkalemia; administer potassium binders
- Hypokalemia; administer potassium replacement (as ordered) and monitor cardiac rhythm
- Normal potassium level; no action needed
- Hyponatremia; administer sodium
- Bowel sounds
- Heart sounds
- Lung sounds
- Carotid bruits
- Tell them they are not a failure
- Challenge the negative thought and explore evidence for/against it
- Agree with the thought
- Ignore the self-talk
- Surgical mask and gloves
- N95 respirator mask and gown
- N95 respirator mask, gown, and gloves
- Standard procedure mask only
- Offer a glass of water
- Take their blood pressure only
- Obtain an ECG and notify the physician immediately
- Tell them to rest
