- Allowing unrestricted movement.
- Providing pain management (e.g., sucrose solution, topical anesthetic), swaddling, and protecting the infant's eyes from bright lights.
- Avoiding eye drops.
- Keeping the room brightly lit.
Category: Pediartic Health Nursing-II
- Restricting fluids.
- Implementing chest physiotherapy (CPT), encouraging coughing, and administering nebulized bronchodilators and mucolytics.
- Limiting physical activity.
- Administering oral antibiotics only.
- Levothyroxine.
- Propylthiouracil (PTU) or methimazole.
- Insulin.
- Acetaminophen.
- Assessing skin color.
- Hourly monitoring of urine output, specific gravity, and daily weights.
- Checking heart rate only.
- Assessing respiratory rate only.
- Oral suctioning only.
- Nasal suctioning with a bulb syringe or suction catheter prior to feedings and as needed.
- Administering cough suppressants.
- Positioning the infant flat.
- Encouraging active play with other children.
- Implementing stringent protective isolation measures to prevent infection due to severe immunosuppression.
- Providing a regular diet.
- Encouraging school attendance.
- Dismissing their feelings.
- Acknowledging and validating their feelings, providing education in a non-judgmental way, and connecting them with support resources.
- Telling them to just accept it.
- Avoiding any discussion about their feelings.
- Oral anticonvulsant.
- Administering benzodiazepines (e.g., lorazepam, diazepam) IV to stop the seizure.
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
- Cough syrup.
- Offering thin liquids.
- Using thickened liquids and soft foods, positioning the child upright, and providing adaptive feeding equipment.
- Force-feeding the child.
- Feeding the child while lying flat.
- Using scented wipes.
- Frequent diaper changes and gentle cleansing to prevent skin breakdown and diaper dermatitis.
- Allowing the diaper to remain soiled to dry out skin.
- Using talcum powder liberally.
- Giving pain medication only when the child asks.
- Administering scheduled pain medication and breakthrough doses, often IV opioids, to ensure adequate pain control.
- Relying on non-pharmacological methods only.
- Giving the lowest possible dose of pain medication.
- Constipation.
- Cardiac arrhythmias due to hypokalemia or other electrolyte disturbances.
- Weight gain.
- Skin rashes.
- Allowing the infant to crawl immediately.
- Maintaining the affected extremity straight for several hours, monitoring pulses distal to the site, and assessing for bleeding or hematoma.
- Applying a warm compress to the site.
- Encouraging active movement of the extremity.
- Encouraging high-sodium foods.
- Monitoring strict intake and output, daily weights, and assessing for skin breakdown.
- Limiting protein intake.
- Administering large volumes of IV fluids.
- Administer insulin.
- Administer 15 grams of a fast-acting carbohydrate (e.g., 4 oz fruit juice), recheck in 15 minutes.
- Encourage exercise.
- Give a complex carbohydrate immediately.
- Mild abdominal distension.
- Absence of meconium passage within 24-48 hours of birth, requiring urgent surgical correction.
- Increased urine output.
- Increased appetite.
- Oral cough suppressants.
- Magnesium sulfate (IV).
- Acetaminophen.
- Nasal spray.
- Administering fluids as quickly as possible.
- Monitoring strict intake and output, hourly urine output, and assessing for signs of fluid overload (e.g., crackles, edema).
- Not monitoring weight.
- Giving large boluses continuously.
- Allowing the child to sit in the same position all day.
- Repositioning frequently, ensuring proper seating, and assessing skin for redness or pressure areas.
- Using harsh soaps for bathing.
- Avoiding pressure relief cushions.
