What questions should you ask the patient? (take into consideration the patient’s age when listing your questions)

Posted: February 25th, 2022

Case study:
An 8-year-old girl comes to your ambulatory care clinic with complaints of left ear pain for the past 3 days. She had respiratory infection a week ago. On physical examination, the tympanic membrane is bulging.
Answer the following questions:
What questions should you ask the patient? (take into consideration the patient’s age when listing your questions).
What teaching would you provide to prevent the recurrence of otitis media?
What expected outcomes would be specific to this situation?
Please include at least 1 reference and citation, reference needs to be from 2019-2021 time frame