- To decrease blood flow to the extremity
- To make the veins more visible and palpable
- To sterilize the skin
- To numb the area
Category: BS Nursing
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Appendicitis or peritonitis
- Constipation
- Heartburn
- Muscle strain
- Bradycardia
- Tachycardia
- QT prolongation and arrhythmias
- Hypertension
- Push them gently from behind
- Walk slightly ahead of them, offering your arm, and describe obstacles
- Shout directions from a distance
- Let them navigate on their own to promote independence
- Specific Phobia
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Panic Disorder
- Pupils are dilated and fixed
- Pupils are constricted and non-reactive
- Pupils are equal, round, and reactive to light and accommodation
- Pupils are unequal and non-reactive
- Ask them to stand up
- Restrain them tightly to prevent injury
- Guide them to a safe position (e.g., lying down on their side) and protect their head
- Insert a tongue blade into their mouth
- Assume they are just seeking attention
- Explore for suicidal ideation, plan, and intent
- Encourage them to think positively
- Refer them to a spiritual advisor
- Offer a glass of water
- Place them in a supine position
- Position them in high-Fowler's and prepare for oxygen administration
- Encourage shallow breathing
- Tell them their anger is irrational
- Listen actively and validate their feelings, even if you don't agree with their specific complaints
- Defend the healthcare system vigorously
- Change the topic to a more positive subject
- Right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, right time
- Right doctor, right nurse, right room, right time, right mood
- Right diagnosis, right symptom, right attitude, right family, right outcome
- Right color, right smell, right taste, right temperature, right consistency
- Weight loss and hyperglycemia
- Weight gain, hyperglycemia, and dyslipidemia
- Hypoglycemia and hyperlipidemia
- Hair loss and anemia
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