- Advise residents to move
- Collaborate with environmental protection agencies to investigate air quality, educate residents on exposure reduction, and advocate for stricter emissions regulations
- Tell residents to wear masks always
- Only provide respiratory medications
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- Use complex medical terminology
- Develop health education materials in plain language, use visual aids, employ teach-back method, and advocate for clear communication in healthcare settings
- Assume all patients understand
- Provide information only through written text
- Lifestyle changes make medication unnecessary
- Lifestyle changes (e.g., diet, exercise, stress reduction) can enhance medication effectiveness and potentially reduce the need for higher doses over time
- Only medication works for hypertension
- Lifestyle changes only cause side effects
- Tell parents to wait until the child is older
- Educate parents on the benefits of early intervention, assess barriers to access, and connect them to relevant agencies and support groups
- Blame parents for not knowing
- Only provide a list of websites
- Using a loud voice for all instructions
- Using an audiometer to test different frequencies, ensuring a quiet environment, and referring for comprehensive audiological evaluation if hearing loss is suspected
- Only whispering instructions
- Testing only one ear
- Advise people to avoid all restaurants
- Collaborate with environmental health officials to investigate the source, issue public warnings, and educate on safe food preparation practices
- Only treat individuals with symptoms
- Conduct a survey on restaurant preferences
- Advise pregnant women to travel to urban areas
- Advocate for mobile prenatal clinics, telehealth services, and expansion of local health clinics to provide comprehensive prenatal care
- Only focus on individual pregnant women
- Ignore the access issue
- Stop taking the medication
- Suggest sugar-free gum/candies, frequent sips of water, and maintaining good oral hygiene; advise contacting provider if severe or persistent
- Take more medication
- Ignore the dry mouth
- Tell them to hide their diagnosis
- Provide emotional support, normalize feelings, connect to peer support groups, and emphasize that diabetes is a manageable condition
- Blame them for their lifestyle
- Only provide medical facts
- Lifting the patient by arms only
- Using proper body mechanics, utilizing assistive devices (e.g., gait belt), and ensuring the environment is clear and safe for transfer
- Transferring without asking for help
- Rushing the transfer
- Advise individuals to cope alone
- Collaborate with mental health crisis teams, establish mobile crisis units, and increase access to walk-in mental health services
- Only focus on inpatient admissions
- Tell people to calm down
- Only provide cooking classes
- Advocate for policies that support farmers' markets, community gardens, grocery store incentives, and healthy food zoning laws
- Focus on individual dietary choices only
- Ignore the food environment
- Tell them to take all medications at once
- Simplify the regimen if possible (e.g., once-daily dosing), use pill organizers, link medication to daily routines, and provide clear written instructions
- Advise them to stop some medications
- Only provide a verbal explanation
- Focus only on the unaffected side
- Educate family on environmental modifications (e.g., placing objects on the affected side), encourage sensory stimulation to the affected side, and promote awareness
- Ignore the affected side
- Tell the patient to try harder to see
- Using a single Snellen chart for all ages
- Testing visual acuity, stereopsis, color vision, and ocular alignment; ensuring appropriate lighting and distance; and referring for comprehensive eye exams as needed
- Skipping color vision testing
- Only testing one eye
- Advise families to move out
- Conduct lead screenings, educate on lead hazard reduction (e.g., wet dusting, handwashing), and advocate for lead abatement programs
- Tell children to play indoors only
- Only provide nutritional supplements
- Advise abstinence only
- Implement comprehensive sexual health education, promote condom use, provide accessible STI testing and treatment, and conduct partner notification
- Blame young adults for their choices
- Only focus on individual counseling
- Stop taking the contraceptive
- Take medication with food, try taking it at bedtime, and ensure patient understands side effects often diminish over time
- Take on an empty stomach
- Take more contraceptive
- Force compliance with strategies
- Explore patient's beliefs, values, and barriers to self-management, use motivational interviewing, and set realistic, patient-centered goals
- Tell them they will get sicker
- Only provide information without discussion
