- 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
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- 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
- Administer in the same site every time
- Verify patient identity, review immunization history, ensure correct vaccine and dose, use proper injection technique and site, and document thoroughly
- Administer without consent
- Ignore contraindications
- Blame drug users
- Enhance naloxone distribution, increase access to treatment programs (e.g., MAT), and implement rapid response teams for overdose reversals
- Advise stricter law enforcement only
- Only focus on prevention for youth
- Provide only individual shelter referrals
- Advocate for affordable housing initiatives, supportive housing programs, and policies that address the root causes of homelessness
- Ignore the systemic issues
- Only focus on providing food
- Tell them to breathe deeper
- Demonstrate use of a spacer device, practice technique, and ensure patient understands the purpose and frequency of medication
- Advise them to use the inhaler less often
- Only provide written instructions
- Communicate only in English
- Utilize certified medical interpreters, provide culturally sensitive materials in their native language, and connect them to culturally competent healthcare providers
- Tell them to learn English
- Use family members as interpreters always
- Pricking the center of the fingertip
- Using the side of the fingertip, rotating sites, ensuring good blood flow, and using the correct lancet depth
- Squeezing the finger vigorously
- Reusing lancets
- Advise against going outdoors
- Educate on mosquito bite prevention (e.g., repellents, protective clothing), promote elimination of standing water, and collaborate with vector control programs
- Recommend immediate hospitalization for all
- Only focus on treating symptoms
- Advise parents to supervise more closely
- Conduct a safety audit of the playground, advocate for safer equipment/surfacing, and educate parents/children on playground safety
- Ban children from playgrounds
- Only treat injuries after they occur
