You have the right to an appropriate assessment and management of your pain. These rights include the following:
- Information about pain and pain relief
- A concerned staff committed to pain prevention
- Health care professionals who respond quickly to reports of pain
- State-of-the-art pain management
- Dedicated pain control specialists
- Pain expressions will be believed
- With your right to an appropriate assessment and management of your pain, we will expect you to:
- Ask your doctor or nurse what to expect
- Discuss pain control options with your doctors and nurses
- Work with your doctor and nurse to make a pain control plan
- Notify nursing personnel when pain first begins
- Help the doctor or nurse measure your pain
- Tell the doctor or nurse about any pain that will not go away