- Take more than prescribed for pain
- Take only as prescribed, store securely, do not share, and dispose of unused medication safely; educate on overdose signs and naloxone availability
- Take less than prescribed for pain
- Give to friends and family for their pain
Category: BS Nursing
- Use expired test strips
- Ensure proper calibration, explain each step clearly, allow patient to practice, and ensure they can interpret the readings
- Skip the control solution test
- Only provide a complex manual
- Tell people to stay warm by exercising
- Conduct welfare checks on vulnerable individuals, educate on carbon monoxide poisoning prevention, and coordinate with emergency services for shelter and heating assistance
- Advise opening windows for ventilation
- Recommend using gas stoves for heat
- Advise individual therapy only
- Develop and promote stress management programs, advocate for family-friendly workplace policies, and connect parents to mental health resources
- Ignore the issue of stress
- Tell parents to manage stress on their own
- Tell them it's normal
- Advise the patient to contact their healthcare provider immediately, as muscle pain can indicate a serious side effect (rhabdomyolysis)
- Advise them to take more statin
- Tell them to take pain relievers only
- Force them to choose dialysis
- Provide unbiased information on all treatment options, support patient autonomy in decision-making, and offer palliative care resources
- Advise them to ignore medical advice
- Only discuss dialysis
- Advise couples to work harder
- Increase awareness of domestic violence resources, provide crisis intervention, and collaborate with law enforcement and social services to ensure victim safety
- Tell victims to be more resilient
- Only focus on individual counseling
- Store cleaning supplies on low shelves
- Store all chemicals, cleaning supplies, and medications in locked cabinets, out of reach and sight of children
- Keep hazardous materials in open containers
- Do not label chemicals
- Focus only on economic impact
- Assess potential health effects (positive and negative) of policies, plans, or projects on the community, and provide recommendations to mitigate negative impacts
- Ignore health outcomes
- Only consider short-term effects
- Tell them it won't hurt
- Demonstrate proper technique (e.g., rotating sites, proper needle angle, injecting at appropriate depth), use thinner needles if appropriate, and address fears gently
- Inject them without warning
- Advise them to skip injections
- Ask about their favorite TV shows
- Assess nutritional status, blood glucose control, circulation, infection signs, and adherence to wound care regimen
- Check their social media
- Discuss their past vacations
- Perform the procedure quickly without explanation
- Demonstrate slowly, explain each step, allow for questions, and provide opportunities for return demonstration and feedback
- Only give verbal instructions
- Use complex medical terms
- Advise rationing water for drinking only
- Educate on water conservation, safe water storage, and hygiene practices with limited water, and coordinate with local authorities for water distribution
- Tell people to use less water for bathing
- Encourage open defecation
- Advise residents to walk
- Advocate for increased public transportation routes, demand-response services, or community-based volunteer transportation programs
- Only refer to private taxis
- Ignore the transportation barrier
- Flush down the toilet
- Participate in drug take-back programs, or if unavailable, mix with undesirable substance (e.g., coffee grounds) and place in sealed bag in trash
- Throw in the regular trash
- Keep for future use
- Tell them to find a job
- Connect the patient to housing assistance programs, mental health support services, and vocational training if appropriate
- Only provide psychotherapy
- Advise them to live on the streets
- Dismiss all concerns as unfounded
- Educate on common, mild side effects (e.g., fever, soreness), provide clear instructions for management, and emphasize signs of serious reactions requiring immediate medical attention
- Only discuss severe side effects
- Tell parents vaccines have no side effects
- Isolate only symptomatic infants
- Promote vaccination (DTaP for infants, Tdap for adolescents/adults), educate on early symptom recognition, and ensure rapid treatment for infected individuals
- Recommend over-the-counter cough medicine
- Advise infants to avoid crowds
- Only measure patient satisfaction
- Assess program effectiveness in achieving objectives, impact on community health outcomes, efficiency, and sustainability using various data sources
- Rely on anecdotal evidence only
- Evaluate only at the beginning of the program
