If you are a nurse, doctor, contact-tracer, or physician working in the fields of health, disease, and prevention and need to ask questions, screen patients, or communicate with your Spanish patients, watch this video. In this video you will learn to ask questions related to the signs and symptoms of covid-19 in Spanish-speaking patients. If a Spanish–speaking patient seeks medical help at a clinic, hospital, or any other medical institution, you may need to ask questions in Spanish because they might not speak English. In this video we will cover many questions, amongst them: Have you had a fever, a cough, chills, diarrhea, vomit, nausea? Do you have difficulty breathing? Have you felt confusion? Have you done a covid-19 test? What was your result? You will not only learn to ask detailed, specific questions about symptoms and signs of covid, you will learn the verbs you need to ask questions, and many words in Spanish that will help you communicate with your Spanish patients.

I made this video after receiving multiple requests from nurses and members of medical teams in the US and who are struggling communicating with some of the patients who speak Spanish. I hope this video helps you communicate with your patients whose language is Spanish.

Lesson Review:
In this questionnaire, I use the pronoun “usted” (formal you) to address your patients.

Remember that you can ask a question with any of these Spanish verbs:

Do you have? ¿Tiene? (tee-eh-neh)
Have you had? ¿Ha tenido? (ah-teh-nee-thoh)
Do you feel? ¿Siente? (see-ehn-teh)
Have you felt? ¿Ha sentido? (ah-sehn-tee-thoh)

¿Cómo se siente? How are you feeling?
¿Qué siente? What do you feel?
¿Cuándo empezó a sentirse así? When did you start feeling like this?
¿Se ha hecho la prueba de covid–19? Have you done the test for covid–19?
¿Su resultado fue negativo o positivo? Was your result negative or positive?

(Tiene que / Debe) hacer cuarentena durante catorce días. You have to quarantine for 14 days.
(Tiene que / Debe) permanecer a dos metros de distancia de cualquier persona.
You have to stay/keep 2 m away from any person.
(Tiene que / Debe) aislarse por unos días.


¿Tiene fiebre? Do you have a fever?
¿Ha tenido fiebre? Have you had fever?
¿Tiene tos? Do you have a cough?
¿Ha tenido tos? Have you had a cough?
¿Tiene tos con flemas? Do you have a cough with phlegm?
¿Tiene tos seca? Do you have a dry cough?
¿Tiene dificultad para respirar? Are you having difficulty breathing?
¿Tienes congestión nasal o moqueo? Do you have nasal congestion?
¿Tienes náuseas? Do you have nausea?
¿Tienes vómito? Do you have the need to throw up?
¿Tiene fatiga? Do you have fatigue?
Se ha sentido cansado(a)? Have you felt tired?
¿Tienes dolor de músculos? Do you have pain in the muscles?
¿Tienes dolor de cuerpo? Does your body ache?
¿Has perdido el apetito? Have you lost your appetite?
¿Has notado una pérdida del sentido del gusto? Have noticed any loss of taste?
¿Has perdido el sentido del olfato? Have you noticed any loss of smell?
¿Ha tenido dificultad para pensar? Have you had difficulty thinking?
¿Ha sentido confusión? Have you felt confused?
¿Cuándo empezaste con la tos, la fiebre? When did you start with the cough, fever?

Remember the pronunciation for the Spanish “e” (pronounced as ‘eh’) like elephant.
The Spanish “i” (pronounced ‘ee’) like team.
Siento, see-ehn-toh.
Tiene, tee-eh-neh.

Review your vocabulary:
patient – paciente for both a woman and a man is paciente (pah–see–ehn–the).
nurse – ehn–pher–meh–rah (female), ehn–pher–meh–roh (male)
meds – medicamento
prescription – receta
pharmacy – farmacia (phar–mah–syah)

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