- Leaving the child alone to rest.
- Reorienting the child gently, providing a calm environment, and ensuring parental presence if possible.
- Speaking loudly to the child.
- Administering sedatives.
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- Use the same site every time.
- Rotate injection sites regularly to prevent lipohypertrophy and ensure consistent absorption.
- Only inject into the abdomen.
- Inject into muscles.
- Only monitoring oxygen saturation.
- Continuous monitoring of respiratory rate, effort, breath sounds, and color, and assessing for signs of fatigue.
- Only monitoring heart rate.
- Checking temperature.
- Taking over all aspects of care.
- Empowering the adolescent to take increasing responsibility for their medications, treatments, and appointments, and connecting them with adult CF resources.
- Limiting their involvement in care decisions.
- Treating them like a child.
- Oral antihistamine.
- Immediate administration of intramuscular epinephrine.
- Oral corticosteroids.
- Topical cream.
- Oral analgesics only.
- Topical anesthetics (e.g., viscous lidocaine) or systemic analgesics as needed.
- Harsh mouthwashes.
- Spicy foods.
- Ignoring school attendance.
- Collaborating with the school to create a flexible learning plan, educating teachers about IBD, and addressing emotional impact.
- Telling the child to just go to school.
- Blaming the child for absences.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Antibiotics.
- Corticosteroids (e.g., prednisone).
- Antiemetics.
- Laxatives.
