one example is a patient is unable to describe which medications he or she is taken for the last 3 days medication bottles are labeled and filled and the nurse has to solve the problem of why the patient is not adhering to or following her medication schedule that is one of the problem solving situations in nursing the nurse have to critically think and find a way to describe to the patient and set up a plan how this person is able to take the medication properly maybe larger lettering or relabeled the medications over get a pill box organizer these are the ways to solve it