Personal Narrative: My Ear Infection

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When I got to my clinical site there was already a student in the office. He had been hit a few inches above his pubic bone with a large block of wood, in a woodworking class. It was bleeding but she had already put a bandage on it. We brought him to the back room and had him lay down. He stated that his right leg hurt and that his calf felt tense. Amy called his mom and explained what happened, they decided it was best for him to go home and maybe see a doctor. When the students mother came in he showed her where he had gotten hit and explained that the cut didn’t hurt but his entire right leg did. A student came in with an ear infection and said he was on antibiotics for it. We took him out back and used the otoscope to look in his ears. First Amy looked at the ear that didn 't have an infection. She asked the student if it was okay for me to look in his ear too. He said yes and she let me look. We could see tubes that had been out in his ears to help with his infections. Then we looked at the infected ear. It was red and it looked as though there might have been a hole. Amy called his mother and she came to get him. One of the teachers in the room with students that have mental disabilities …show more content…

They already had the other student in the hoyer lift and were bringing him into the bathroom. The teachers asked if it was okay for me to hear them talking about the issues with the students parents and medications. After he was put up onto the table in the bathroom rolled him onto his side so that we could see the area on his hip that was red and raw. There were a few other issues such as a cut on his back that we didn’t get to look at because there were no bandages to replace the one that his mother had out on it. The teachers asked Amy to look at the student 's hip because they didn’t want there to be a legal issue with the