- Performing abdominal thrusts very gently
- Performing rapid, upward abdominal thrusts above the navel, or chest thrusts for pregnant/obese individuals, until obstruction is relieved
- Giving back blows only
- Performing chest compressions only
Category: BS Nursing
- Advise avoiding all social contact
- Promote widespread vaccination, implement testing and contact tracing, educate on infection control (masking, distancing), and ensure access to treatment and isolation support
- Tell people to ignore symptoms
- Only focus on treating severe cases
- Only provide individual counseling
- Advocate for community programs that promote social engagement, intergenerational activities, and accessible transportation for older adults
- Ignore social isolation
- Focus on physical health only
- Tell them to stop taking medications
- Review medication list for sedating or hypotensive drugs, educate on medication side effects, and collaborate with physician for medication reconciliation/adjustment
- Advise them to walk less
- Only focus on physical therapy
- Stop taking the anticoagulant
- Advise contacting healthcare provider immediately, as this can indicate excessive anticoagulation, and discuss careful oral hygiene
- Take more anticoagulant
- Ignore the bleeding
- Advise eating only fresh food
- Collaborate with public health officials to identify the contaminated food source, issue immediate public warnings, and ensure rapid administration of antitoxin if indicated
- Tell people to avoid all canned food
- Only focus on respiratory support
- Applying ice directly to the skin for prolonged periods
- Wrapping ice in a cloth or towel, applying for 15-20 minutes at a time, and allowing for skin rewarming between applications to prevent frostbite
- Using a hot compress for a sprain
- Not elevating the injured limb
- Advise children to play in the streets
- Advocate for community initiatives to create and maintain safe parks, playgrounds, and recreational programs for children
- Tell parents to supervise constantly
- Only focus on academic achievement
- Stop using the bronchodilator
- Advise that nervousness/tremors are common side effects, but should subside; ensure proper dosage and technique, and advise contacting provider if severe
- Take more bronchodilator
- Ignore the nervousness
- Tell them to stop medication immediately
- Assess side effects, educate on management strategies, discuss alternative medications with the physician, and provide support to maintain adherence
- Tell them to ignore side effects
- Only focus on the diagnosis
- Applying ice directly to the burn
- Cooling the burn with cool (not cold) running water for several minutes, and covering with a clean, dry dressing
- Applying butter or oil to the burn
- Breaking any blisters
- Advise against eating all raw foods
- Promote vaccination, educate on hand hygiene (especially after toileting and before food preparation), and identify contaminated food/water sources
- Tell people to eat out more
- Only focus on treating symptoms
- Only provide cooking recipes
- Advocate for policies that incentivize grocery stores to open in underserved areas, support local farmers' markets, and promote community gardens
- Advise residents to travel long distances
- Ignore the lack of healthy food
- Prescribe higher doses
- Discuss non-opioid pain management strategies, closely monitor opioid use, involve family in medication management, and provide overdose prevention education and naloxone
- Tell them to manage pain on their own
- Encourage self-medication
- Report non-adherence immediately
- Implement Directly Observed Therapy (DOT), provide incentives for adherence, address barriers (e.g., food, shelter), and connect to support services
- Tell them they will not get better
- Only provide written instructions
- Placing on a cold or dirty finger
- Ensuring a warm, clean finger, avoiding nail polish, and interpreting the SpO2 reading and pulse rate accurately
- Placing on an earlobe only
- Ignoring the pulse rate reading
- Advise against drinking tap water always
- Educate on safe drinking water, proper hand hygiene, and safe food preparation, and ensure prompt treatment for infected individuals
- Tell people to boil all food
- Only focus on treating symptoms
- Advise residents to move
- Advocate for policies that support affordable housing development, rent assistance programs, and homeless prevention initiatives
- Ignore the housing crisis
- Only refer to emergency shelters
- Tell them to budget better
- Assess for food insecurity, connect to food banks, meal programs, and apply for government assistance programs like SNAP
- Ignore their financial situation
- Only provide dietary advice
