If you're a healthcare professional knowing a bit of medical Spanish
vocabulary can help you communicate with even more patients. It also makes you
more appealing to potential employers. To learn how to better understand your
Spanish-speaking patients, keep watching.
Hey everyone, Danae here with TakeLessons Live, bringing you the latest Spanish
tips right from our virtual classroom. Coming up our Spanish teacher Rosita is
going to share some basic terms for nurses and other health care providers.
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share more ways you can improve your medical Spanish skills today.
The way to use this chart is: you may choose any power verb followed by an infinitive to
form a sentence. Or if you need to be more specific then add a noun after. So
por ejemplo: "necesito" which means "I need." So if you need to tell a patient
"I need to inject you" - "Necesito inyectarle." Or if you need to tell your patient that she needs
to do something like take medication for an example -
"necesita tomar sus medicinas." "Querer" which means "to want." "Quiero" which is "I
want." Quiero examinarle" - I want to examine you. And we have "quiere."
"Quiere" means "you want." Now this is a great way to find out what your patient would like.
For an example, "Quieres hacer una cita mañana?" - "Do you want to make an appointment for
tomorrow?" Or "Quiere consultar con su doctor?" - "Would you like to consult
with your doctor?" All right, "puedo" and "puede." This comes from the
stem change verb "poder" which means: to be able to. Now when a patient
tells you "Si, puedo, puedo" means "I can do it. I'm
able to do it." But if you're asking a patient, "Puede extender el
brazo?" Then the patients goes "Si, puedo extender mi brazo." Now "allow
me" - "permitame." Please repeat after me: permitame. This actually has various
uses. "Permitame" means excuse me. Or if you don't remember a word or an
instruction in Spanish, if you're trying to grab a body part like a hand
or the arm, you can just point at the body part and
just say "Permitame" when in doubt. We will understand that you know
your Spanish is not fluent yet but always use your hand movements.
"Debo" and "debe" comes from the verb "deber" which means "should" or "must." So
when you need to weigh us "Debo que pesarle" - "I need to weigh you." Please
repeat after me: la pildora. Now that means "pill" but the
most common way to say pill is: la pastilla.
Alright "tablet" - "la tableta". "Lozenge" - "el trocito." All right a
coated pill - "la gragea." A capsule - "la capsula." Syrup - "el jarabe." Liquid - "el
liquido." Medicine - "la medicina."
Now we're talking about actual medication - "el medicamento."
Now when giving instructions on medications especially
if it comes to liquid a common measurement for liquid medicine, we
use spoons. Now a tablespoon is "una cucharada." A teaspoon - "cucharadita."
The way that I'm personally familiar with - "una cucharita." "Una cucharita" is a teaspoon.
And a tablespoon is "una cucharada." Let's check this out.
"Frote." Please repeat after me: frote. This means to rub. "Sobe" - "massage." Now another way to say
massage is "una masaje." That's another way of saying massage. "Ponga"
comes from the verb "poner" which means "to put." Alright next we have "apply" - "aplique."
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