- Take on an empty stomach
- Take with food or milk, advise contacting healthcare provider if symptoms persist or worsen, and discuss alternative pain management options
- Take more NSAID
- Ignore the stomach upset
Category: BS Nursing
- Give medication without explanation
- Use simple language, visual aids, consistent routines, and involve caregivers in medication administration and monitoring
- Tell them they can manage it alone
- Only provide complex written instructions
- Advise residents to plant gardens immediately
- Connect families to food banks, meal programs, SNAP benefits, and advocate for policies that address poverty and economic opportunity
- Tell people to eat less
- Only provide cooking recipes
- Using harsh scrub brushes
- Gently washing the wound with mild soap and water, rinsing thoroughly, and avoiding vigorous scrubbing to prevent further tissue damage
- Applying antiseptic solutions to all wounds
- Not rinsing the wound
- Only focus on individual insurance plans
- Advocate for policies that ensure affordable, comprehensive healthcare coverage for all members of the community, regardless of socioeconomic status
- Ignore access barriers
- Only support private healthcare
- Provide refills without question
- Educate on safe opioid use, monitor for signs of dependence/addiction, discuss non-pharmacological pain management, and collaborate with physician for pain management plan
- Refuse all refills immediately
- Suggest taking more for pain
- Advise them to stay home
- Assess for social determinants of health, connect to senior centers, volunteer programs, and social support networks
- Tell them to find hobbies on their own
- Only discuss medical conditions
- Advise against using air conditioning
- Collaborate with public health officials to investigate environmental sources (e.g., contaminated water systems), issue public warnings, and educate on prevention
- Tell people to drink bottled water only
- Only focus on treating pneumonia
- Blowing gently into the mouthpiece
- Blowing hard and fast into the mouthpiece, taking three readings, and recording the best of the three
- Breathing slowly into the mouthpiece
- Using the device only when feeling short of breath
- Only provide acute care services
- Develop and implement community-based self-management education programs, utilize peer educators, and integrate technology for ongoing support
- Blame individuals for poor self-care
- Focus on hospital-based care only
- Store in the freezer
- Store in the refrigerator at the recommended temperature, away from direct sunlight and extreme temperatures, and avoid freezing
- Store on the counter
- Carry in a warm pocket
- Tell them to adapt to the new culture
- Utilize certified interpreters, provide culturally sensitive care, and connect them to community resources that support cultural integration and health literacy
- Force them to learn English
- Only provide medical treatment
- Only looking for redness
- Recognizing signs like increased pain, swelling, redness, warmth, purulent drainage, and fever
- Ignoring the wound's appearance
- Assuming all wounds are infected
- Blame the youth for their choices
- Implement school-based overdose prevention education, distribute naloxone kits, and increase access to youth-friendly substance abuse treatment
- Only focus on adult drug users
- Advise youth to stay home
- Only provide toothbrushes
- Advocate for mobile dental clinics, school-based dental sealant programs, and policies that expand Medicaid coverage for dental services
- Ignore dental health
- Focus on individual oral hygiene only
- Advise sharing the antibiotic
- Emphasize that antibiotics are prescribed for specific infections and individuals, and sharing can lead to resistance or inappropriate treatment
- Encourage sharing to save money
- Tell them it's harmless to share
- Tell them to find better housing
- Collaborate with social workers to find stable housing, provide medication organizers, and explore options for medication storage at a clinic or pharmacy
- Tell them to hide their medications
- Only provide medication education
- Discontinuing treatment when sounds stop
- Ensuring a tight seal with the mask or mouthpiece, breathing slowly and deeply, and continuing until all medication is nebulized
- Holding the device far from the face
- Using dirty equipment
- Focus on long-term recovery immediately
- Conduct rapid needs assessment for immediate health concerns (injuries, chronic conditions, mental health), coordinate shelter and medical care, and ensure access to basic necessities
- Tell people to rebuild their homes
- Provide only legal assistance
