- 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
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- 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
- Tell her to tell her parents immediately
- Provide non-judgmental support, discuss options (e.g., parenting, adoption), connect to prenatal care, and resources for young mothers and emotional support
- Blame her for her choices
- Only discuss abortion options
- Applying the bandage very loosely
- Applying the bandage with even pressure, overlapping turns by about half, and ensuring it's not too tight to impair circulation
- Applying the bandage very tightly
- Not securing the bandage end
- Only treat individuals with active TB
- Implement widespread screening, contact tracing, educate on airborne precautions, and ensure adherence to treatment regimens to prevent further transmission
- Tell people to avoid crowded places
- Advise against wearing masks
- Advise children to stay indoors
- Advocate for community initiatives to create safe playgrounds, after-school programs, and partnerships with local law enforcement to ensure child safety
- Tell parents to supervise constantly
- Only focus on individual family safety
- Advise taking all herbal supplements
- Educate on the importance of informing healthcare providers about all herbal supplements, as some can interact with medications and cause adverse effects
- Tell them herbal supplements are always safe
- Take only herbal supplements
- Force them to see a therapist
- Provide culturally sensitive education on mental health, acknowledge and respect their beliefs, connect to culturally appropriate mental health resources, and emphasize confidentiality
- Tell them to ignore the stigma
- Only provide information on medication
- Placing smoke detectors only in hallways
- Installing smoke detectors on every level of the home, inside and outside sleeping areas, and testing them monthly; replacing batteries annually
- Disabling smoke detectors if they beep
- Ignoring expiration dates on detectors
- Advise against eating all poultry
- Educate on safe food handling practices (e.g., proper cooking temperature, preventing cross-contamination), and emphasize hand hygiene
- Tell people to eat out more often
- Only focus on treating symptoms
