• Caregivers should ask you about your pain and help set a goal for the level you would like your pain to be maintained.
• Caregivers will share with you what will be done for your pain and what choices of medications are available.
• Prompt attention to your requests for pain medication.
• Caregivers should find out how well pain treatments worked and offer different methods if they don’t.
• Discuss side effects of your medications and how they can be managed.
• Discuss with your how to manage your pain when you are discharged.

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