- Tell the patient there's nothing more that can be done.
- Document the pain and wait for the next dose time.
- Re-assess the pain, advocate for additional pain management strategies or a change in orders from the physician, and explore non-pharmacological interventions.
- Suggest the patient just try to relax.
Category: BS Nursing
- Tell the patient to practice more.
- Provide pre-filled syringes or arrange for home health support to ensure safe and accurate insulin administration.
- Assume the patient will manage.
- Tell the patient that their tremor is a problem.
- Autonomy
- Beneficence
- Non-maleficence
- Justice
- Autonomy
- Beneficence
- Non-maleficence
- Justice
- Autonomy
- Professional boundaries
- Veracity
- Confidentiality
- Beneficence
- Non-maleficence
- Autonomy
- Justice
- Disclose the information immediately to the patient.
- Refer the patient to official public health announcements and advise on general preventative measures.
- Deny any knowledge of an outbreak.
- Tell the patient to check social media.
- Follow the verbal order.
- Follow the written order.
- Clarify the discrepancy with the prescribing physician to ensure patient safety and correct documentation.
- Ask another nurse for their opinion.
- Autonomy
- Beneficence
- Non-maleficence
- Justice
- Use the erratic reading and administer insulin.
- Use a different, reliable monitor, or perform a manual blood glucose check to ensure an accurate reading before administering insulin.
- Guess the patient's glucose level.
- Wait for the monitor to fix itself.
- Hang up the phone immediately.
- Engage in a verbal argument with the family member.
- Listen calmly, acknowledge their concerns, and offer to facilitate communication with the appropriate healthcare team member or supervisor.
- Threaten to report the family member.
- Tolerate the behavior to ensure patient care.
- Confront the patient angrily.
- Set clear professional boundaries, inform the patient that such behavior is unacceptable, and report the harassment to the charge nurse or supervisor.
- Avoid the patient's room.
- Autonomy
- Beneficence
- Non-maleficence
- Justice
- Accurate charting
- Medication double-checking
- Patient education
- Family involvement
- Insist on following hospital policy strictly.
- Allow the family to provide all care regardless of policy.
- Collaborate with the family to integrate their cultural practices while ensuring essential medical care and infection control standards are met.
- Document that the family is uncooperative.
- Force conventional treatment as superior.
- Dismiss cultural beliefs as irrelevant.
- Respect cultural beliefs, explore their understanding of illness, and provide education on the benefits of medical treatment while honoring autonomy.
- Tell the patient their beliefs are wrong.
- Parental autonomy
- Veracity
- Non-maleficence (to the child)
- Justice
- Beneficence
- Non-maleficence
- Veracity
- Justice
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