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Your patient is a 3-year-old female who is grasping her left ear and carying loudly. She is obviously in pain, and when you a
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A child cannot properly express his or her condition by words. He or she does it with the help of their attitude and their expression and the patient here expresses her pain and her discomfort with the help of her cry. She is more anxious to see the person who is going to hurt her more with a needle hence making the situation more difficult and irritable to her.

Being a nurse my responsibility towards her is to ease her discomfort and to make her feel relaxed. I will first try to calm her down by assuring her that I was not there to give her injection or any pain. After she builds a confidence towards me I will ask her about her pain and discomfort. After doing so I will try to take her vital reading by playing game with her and involving her parent with us.

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