- Tilt head, lift chin, and check for breathing
- Force food into their mouth
- Place a pillow under their head
- Begin chest compressions immediately
Category: Clinical Practicum
- Select site, apply tourniquet, clean skin, insert catheter
- Clean skin, select site, apply tourniquet, insert catheter
- Apply tourniquet, clean skin, select site, insert catheter
- Insert catheter, apply tourniquet, clean skin, select site
- Respiratory rate
- Blood pressure
- Apical pulse
- Temperature
- Increase the IV fluid rate
- Elevate the head of the bed, slow down or stop the IV infusion, and notify the physician
- Administer a diuretic without an order
- Encourage more fluid intake
- Force the medication
- Respect their autonomy and engage in shared decision-making, exploring alternatives and concerns
- Tell them their religious beliefs are wrong
- Document refusal and take no further action
- Extensive social media engagement
- A plan for follow-up appointments, medication management, and emergency contacts
- A luxurious vacation plan
- Only medication details
- Allow the avoidance to continue
- Directly challenge their avoidance in a confrontational manner
- Gently bring the conversation back to the avoided topic, validating their discomfort
- Shift the topic to something entirely different
- Acute exacerbation of COPD
- Panic attack
- Simple anxiety
- Dehydration
- Using a cuff that is too wide
- Using a cuff that is too narrow
- Patient's arm is at heart level
- Taking multiple readings
- Serotonin Syndrome
- Hypertensive Crisis
- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS)
- Hypoglycemia
- Explore the traumatic memory in detail
- Help the client with grounding techniques to return to the present moment
- Tell them to calm down
- End the session abruptly
- To decrease blood flow to the extremity
- To make the veins more visible and palpable
- To sterilize the skin
- To numb the area
- Call the patient's family
- Initiate chest compressions
- Document the time of unresponsiveness
- Perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation only
- Planning your next response while the patient speaks
- Silently judging the patient's statements
- Paying full attention, demonstrating empathy, and providing verbal/non-verbal cues of understanding
- Only focusing on factual information
- Apply the blood to the reagent strip and immediately insert it into the glucometer
- Wipe the blood off the strip before inserting
- Insert the strip into the glucometer before applying blood
- Shake the glucometer before reading
- Addison's Disease
- Cushing's Syndrome
- Grave's Disease
- Hypothyroidism
- To complain about difficult patients
- To quickly transfer critical patient information and care responsibilities to the next shift
- To gossip about colleagues
- To update the patient's family only
- Challenge their beliefs directly
- Dismiss their beliefs as irrational
- Seek to understand their perspective within their cultural context, avoiding judgment
- Explain your own cultural beliefs to them
- Appendicitis or peritonitis
- Constipation
- Heartburn
- Muscle strain
