- Suggesting the parents seek therapy for themselves.
- Teaching parents alternative communication strategies (e.g., picture exchange systems, sign language) and emphasizing patience.
- Telling the parents to give up.
- Ignoring the parents' concerns.
Category: BS Nursing
- Oral cough syrup.
- Nebulized budesonide (corticosteroid) and/or nebulized racemic epinephrine.
- Oral antibiotics.
- IV fluids only.
- Placing the infant on their abdomen.
- Using elbow restraints (arm immobilizers) to prevent the infant from touching the incision.
- Allowing the infant to use a pacifier.
- Encouraging aggressive crying.
- Telling them to eat more.
- Encouraging open communication, providing emotional support, and connecting them with peer support groups or mental health professionals.
- Focusing only on physical symptoms.
- Avoiding discussions about body image.
- Providing a favorite toy.
- Assessing for and managing pain using an age-appropriate pain scale.
- Asking the child to talk.
- Offering a snack.
- Administer 4 units of insulin.
- Administer the prescribed 2 units of rapid-acting insulin as indicated by the sliding scale.
- Withhold the insulin.
- Administer 1 unit of insulin.
- Force the nebulizer on the adolescent.
- Assess the reason for refusal, educate, involve the adolescent in decision-making, and offer alternatives like a MDI with spacer.
- Tell the parents to make the adolescent comply.
- Ignore the refusal.
- Rinse mouth with water after each use.
- Administer the inhaled corticosteroid before meals.
- Use a spacer only if absolutely necessary.
- Discontinue the medication if any side effects occur.
- Intussusception.
- Pyloric stenosis.
- Appendicitis.
- Gastroenteritis.
- Confronting the parents about the abuse.
- Documenting all observations objectively, ensuring child safety, and fulfilling mandatory reporting requirements.
- Discharging the child to parental care.
- Discussing findings with neighbors.
- The medication will work immediately.
- It may take several weeks for the full therapeutic effect, and monitoring for worsened suicidal ideation (especially initially) is crucial.
- There are no side effects.
- Stop the medication if symptoms don't improve in a few days.
- No specific precautions are needed.
- Implementing droplet precautions immediately.
- Implementing contact precautions only.
- Implementing airborne precautions.
- Administering potassium supplements.
- Administering a potassium-binding resin (e.g., Kayexalate) or preparing for IV interventions like insulin/glucose.
- Encouraging high-potassium foods.
- Limiting fluid intake.
- Forcing the child to comply.
- Providing a structured, predictable environment, using visual aids, and minimizing sensory overload.
- Speaking loudly to get attention.
- Limiting parental presence.
- The child is being uncooperative.
- The child's agitation and restlessness may indicate worsening hypoxemia.
- The child needs a sedative.
- The child is tired.
- Mild dehydration.
- Hypovolemic shock, requiring immediate fluid resuscitation.
- Overhydration.
- Normal circulatory status.
- Monitoring for constipation.
- Monitoring for signs of dehydration, electrolyte imbalances (especially hypokalemia), and daily weights.
- Assessing for increased appetite.
- Checking for skin rashes.
- Oral acetaminophen.
- Intravenous (IV) opioid analgesics.
- Topical anesthetics.
- Ice packs.
- Limiting fluid intake.
- Implementing a clean intermittent catheterization (CIC) program.
- Administering daily antibiotics.
- Encouraging infrequent voiding.
