Re: Any advice, spanish only speaking pedi patient?
You're teacher probably gave you a spanish-speaker because in real life, in a work situation, you won't always have access to a coworkers who is bilingual and you'll have to figure it out yourself in the moment! It's better to be exposed to these situations while you're in school because once you're out, you could be on your own. I got a few only-Italian-speakers and only-Tagalog-speakers while I was in school in LTC (despite the people in my class who spoke both the languages) and it was a great learning experience in communication! Think of it as extra training
I traveled in S America for 5 months with beginner spanish, but I found that charades are *always* fun and make people laugh a lot! Drawings seem like a good idea, you could doodle up some pictures of different symptoms or something.
"Tienes dolor?" is "Do you have pain?"
"Tengo dolor" means "I have pain."
"Donde" is "where," and hopefully she can point where it is :P It's always good to do things the fun way but some words like those are good to know!
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