Sileen A. Heston RN Pain is something that everyone has felt. The pain that one person feels can be very different from someone else's pain. How people want nurses to treat their pain is different.
Some people watch the clock to get their medicine for pain.
When they tell the nurse that they are in pain they want the medicine now. A person is afraid they will have more pain when they move in bed or cough. Sometimes it feels like the nurse takes too long to bring the medicine to them. Sometimes the pain medicine wears off before the next time to get it. You hurt and it is the nurse's job to know you hurt and give you your pain medicine.