Hearing Screening and Referral a School Nurse Assignment

Screening
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Screening
School nurses are tasked with the responsibility of screening children that come to join school. Part of the screening process involves checking that children do not have compromises in their sight and hearing. In the case of a child that has microtia, the same screening process applies. Ideally, this is a malformation that is congenital and affects the external and middle ear (Medscape, 2016). There is a varying degree of anomaly associated with the displacement of the remnant cartilage. Due to the fact that the condition affects the middle ear as well as the external lobe, this may impact the hearing of the child and thus the nurse should carry out screening to establish the impact of the same on the child’s ability to hear (Medscape, 2016).
Given the situation of the child, in light of the fact that he does n...