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Pain Communication Studies

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JM is a 32 years old female who was admitted on 02/09/2016 for a planned C-section. As we entered the room, she was lying on her bed talking with her husband in Spanish about her incision pain. Also, she was talking in Spanish with two of her kids that were visiting and sitting on her bed. When the nurse approached her bed, JM preferred to speak in English with her nurse. While I was doing the interview, she spoke to me in Spanish. This patient dominates both languages perfectly. She is Mexican, but grew up in this country. As soon as my nurse and I went into her room, she asked for some pain medication to keep the pain under control. She was afraid that the pain kept escalating and became out of control. She explained that that was her first

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