- Checking blood pressure only.
- Monitoring intake and output, skin turgor, mucous membranes, weight, and fontanelles (if applicable).
- Assessing for rash only.
- Checking heart rate only.
Category: BS Nursing
- Forcing injections.
- Using pain-reducing strategies (e.g., topical anesthetics, distraction), allowing the child to participate in the process, and using positive reinforcement.
- Punishing for fear.
- Ignoring the fear.
- Telling them to hide their diabetes.
- Encouraging open communication with friends, connecting with other adolescents with diabetes, and emphasizing self-advocacy.
- Minimizing the impact of diabetes.
- Focusing only on diet.
- Giving larger, less frequent feedings.
- Offering small, frequent, high-calorie feedings, and considering supplemental tube feedings if needed.
- Limiting feeding time.
- Avoiding fortified formula.
- Forcing the child into the scanner.
- Utilizing child life specialists, providing distraction, and administering sedation if ordered.
- Telling the child to be still.
- Threatening the child.
- Elevating the head of the bed only during sleep.
- Positioning the infant upright during feeds, thickening liquids as needed, and performing regular respiratory assessments and airway clearance.
- Offering thin liquids.
- Avoiding immunizations.
- Oral antihistamine.
- Immediate administration of nebulized short-acting beta-agonist (SABA) and systemic corticosteroids if indicated.
- Oral antibiotics.
- Nasal decongestant.
- Administer on an empty stomach.
- Administer with all meals and snacks, mixed with acidic food, and do not crush enteric-coated beads.
- Administer after meals.
- Take only when experiencing abdominal pain.
- Stop medication when blood pressure is normal.
- Administer as prescribed, monitor blood pressure regularly, and do not abruptly discontinue the medication.
- Double the dose if blood pressure is high.
- Give only when the child has symptoms.
- Forcing food.
- Establishing a consistent meal schedule, providing a calm environment, and allowing the adolescent some control within parameters.
- Ignoring refusal to eat.
- Punishing for not eating.
- Reusing needles.
- Priming the pen with 2 units, attaching a new needle for each injection, and dialing the correct dose.
- Shaking the pen before use.
- Storing the pen in a warm place.
- Restricting movement.
- Applying ice to the surgical site, monitoring for swelling or infection, and avoiding strenuous activity for a few days.
- Allowing vigorous play.
- Avoiding bathing.
- Assessing for pain.
- Recognizing signs of increased intracranial pressure (ICP) and immediate brain herniation, requiring urgent neurosurgical intervention.
- Checking for fever.
- Assessing for skin rash.
- Daily oral corticosteroids.
- Use of a short-acting beta-agonist (SABA) 15-30 minutes before exercise.
- Long-acting beta-agonist (LABA) after exercise.
- No medication is needed.
- Assessing for hunger.
- Assessing for respiratory distress and hydration status, as infants can rapidly deteriorate.
- Checking diaper wetness only.
- Assessing for playfulness.
- Telling them they need to be strong.
- Providing non-judgmental support, connecting them with substance abuse counseling and treatment programs, and involving the family.
- Criticizing their past choices.
- Ignoring their desire to change.
- Telling them not to ask such questions.
- Validating their feelings, encouraging expression of emotions, and connecting them with child life specialists or therapists.
- Dismissing their concerns.
- Changing the subject.
- Telling the child it's a game.
- Explaining the procedure in simple terms, using distraction, and ensuring NPO status if required.
- Restraining the child without explanation.
- Allowing the child to eat right before the scan.
- Administer orally.
- Administer via nebulizer daily to thin respiratory secretions.
- Administer only when sick.
- Mix with other medications.
