- Offering thin liquids.
- Positioning the infant upright, thickening liquids, and ensuring a slow feeding pace.
- Feeding rapidly.
- Allowing the infant to self-feed without supervision.
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- Telling them to be strong.
- Acknowledging their grief, providing emotional support, and connecting them with genetic counseling and support organizations.
- Avoiding discussions about the future.
- Minimizing the severity of the diagnosis.
- Take only when pain is severe.
- Take regularly as prescribed to maintain consistent pain control, and discuss constipation management and signs of overdose.
- Crush and chew the medication.
- Share the medication with others.
- Encouraging vigorous play.
- Maintaining a neutral thermal environment, elevating the head of the bed, and clustering nursing care to promote rest.
- Administering large feedings rapidly.
- Restricting oxygen administration.
- Inducing vomiting.
- Assessing airway, breathing, circulation (ABC's), and identifying the substance ingested to guide urgent decontamination/antidote administration.
- Administering activated charcoal without knowing the substance.
- Waiting for lab results.
- Limiting fluid intake to reduce urination.
- Teaching clean intermittent catheterization (CIC) to prevent urinary stasis and infection.
- Administering antibiotics only when symptoms appear.
- Encouraging prolonged periods of bladder holding.
- Inhale quickly and deeply.
- Use a spacer device to improve drug delivery to the lungs and reduce systemic absorption.
- Hold breath for 1 second.
- Exhale immediately after inhalation.
- Suggesting the child be removed from school.
- Advocating for a structured classroom, consistent routines, clear expectations, and positive reinforcement.
- Blaming the teachers for the child's difficulties.
- Allowing the child to do whatever they want.
- Changing the tube daily.
- Teaching proper G-tube feeding techniques, site care, and signs of infection or dislodgement.
- Inserting objects into the stoma.
- Avoiding flushing the tube.
- Monitoring for constipation.
- Monitoring for signs of mucositis, myelosuppression, and renal toxicity.
- Monitoring for increased appetite.
- Monitoring for skin rashes.
- Antibiotics.
- Corticosteroids (e.g., prednisone).
- Antiemetics.
- Laxatives.
- Assessing for a rash.
- Monitoring for signs of coronary artery aneurysms (e.g., fever, rash, conjunctivitis, swollen hands/feet) and cardiac rhythm.
- Checking for swollen lymph nodes.
- Assessing for strawberry tongue.
- Telling the child it won't hurt.
- Administering conscious sedation and/or local anesthetic as prescribed, and providing distraction techniques.
- Relying on the child's resilience.
- Avoiding any pain medication.
- Administering rapidly without monitoring.
- Administering the bolus slowly (e.g., over 20-30 minutes) and reassessing the infant's response frequently.
- Administering only oral fluids.
- Using hypertonic solutions.
- Telling them to cope on their own.
- Connecting them with early intervention services, support groups, and respite care resources.
- Focusing only on the child's physical needs.
- Minimizing the child's developmental delays.
- Adjusting weights freely.
- Maintaining correct alignment, ensuring weights hang freely, and performing frequent neurovascular assessments.
- Removing traction periodically.
- Allowing the child to move vigorously.
- Estimating portion sizes.
- Using food labels and measuring cups/scales for precise carbohydrate measurement.
- Eating unlimited carbohydrates.
- Avoiding all carbohydrates.
- Oral potassium supplements.
- IV calcium gluconate to stabilize the myocardium.
- Loop diuretics.
- Oral fluids.
- Allowing unrestricted screen time before bed.
- Maintaining the child's usual sleep routine as much as possible, creating a calm environment, and explaining the procedure simply.
- Keeping the child awake.
- Administering sedatives routinely.
