- Applying ice directly to the skin for prolonged periods
- Wrapping ice in a cloth or towel, applying for 15-20 minutes at a time, and allowing for skin rewarming between applications to prevent frostbite
- Using a hot compress for a sprain
- Not elevating the injured limb
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- Advise eating only fresh food
- Collaborate with public health officials to identify the contaminated food source, issue immediate public warnings, and ensure rapid administration of antitoxin if indicated
- Tell people to avoid all canned food
- Only focus on respiratory support
- Advise children to play in the streets
- Advocate for community initiatives to create and maintain safe parks, playgrounds, and recreational programs for children
- Tell parents to supervise constantly
- Only focus on academic achievement
- Stop using the bronchodilator
- Advise that nervousness/tremors are common side effects, but should subside; ensure proper dosage and technique, and advise contacting provider if severe
- Take more bronchodilator
- Ignore the nervousness
- Tell them to stop medication immediately
- Assess side effects, educate on management strategies, discuss alternative medications with the physician, and provide support to maintain adherence
- Tell them to ignore side effects
- Only focus on the diagnosis
- Applying ice directly to the burn
- Cooling the burn with cool (not cold) running water for several minutes, and covering with a clean, dry dressing
- Applying butter or oil to the burn
- Breaking any blisters
- Advise against eating all raw foods
- Promote vaccination, educate on hand hygiene (especially after toileting and before food preparation), and identify contaminated food/water sources
- Tell people to eat out more
- Only focus on treating symptoms
- Only provide cooking recipes
- Advocate for policies that incentivize grocery stores to open in underserved areas, support local farmers' markets, and promote community gardens
- Advise residents to travel long distances
- Ignore the lack of healthy food
- Prescribe higher doses
- Discuss non-opioid pain management strategies, closely monitor opioid use, involve family in medication management, and provide overdose prevention education and naloxone
- Tell them to manage pain on their own
- Encourage self-medication
- Report non-adherence immediately
- Implement Directly Observed Therapy (DOT), provide incentives for adherence, address barriers (e.g., food, shelter), and connect to support services
- Tell them they will not get better
- Only provide written instructions
- Placing on a cold or dirty finger
- Ensuring a warm, clean finger, avoiding nail polish, and interpreting the SpO2 reading and pulse rate accurately
- Placing on an earlobe only
- Ignoring the pulse rate reading
- Advise against drinking tap water always
- Educate on safe drinking water, proper hand hygiene, and safe food preparation, and ensure prompt treatment for infected individuals
- Tell people to boil all food
- Only focus on treating symptoms
- Advise residents to move
- Advocate for policies that support affordable housing development, rent assistance programs, and homeless prevention initiatives
- Ignore the housing crisis
- Only refer to emergency shelters
- Advise stopping immediately if feeling better
- Educate on the importance of gradual tapering of steroids to prevent adrenal insufficiency, and to never stop abruptly without physician's order
- Advise taking more if feeling better
- Tell them it's safe to stop suddenly
- Tell them to budget better
- Assess for food insecurity, connect to food banks, meal programs, and apply for government assistance programs like SNAP
- Ignore their financial situation
- Only provide dietary advice
- Compressing at a slow rate
- Compressing at a rate of 100-120 compressions per minute, to a depth of at least 2 inches (5 cm), and allowing for full chest recoil
- Compressing shallowly
- Compressing with bent elbows
- Blame the demographic
- Conduct targeted outreach to the affected demographic, distribute naloxone, provide culturally sensitive overdose prevention education, and increase access to treatment
- Only focus on prevention for other groups
- Advise stricter law enforcement only
- Only focus on adult mental health
- Advocate for increased funding for school-based mental health programs, early intervention services, and integration of mental health into primary care for youth
- Ignore mental health in youth
- Only provide individual counseling
- Stop taking the antifungal
- Take with food or a small snack to reduce gastrointestinal upset, and advise contacting provider if severe or persistent
- Take on an empty stomach
- Take more antifungal
