Enhance your value to your patient and your employer! Strongly
recommended for bilingual contacts.
Objectives
- Facilitate
language problems that develop in day-to-day routine care.
- Improve communication
between the medical professional and the Spanish-speaking patient
seeking healthcare.
- Questions
to elicit "yes" or "no" answers.
- Expressions
are purposely shortened and designed for easier pronunciation
without sacrificing meaning.
Introduction
Communication
and comprehension are vitally important to the effectiveness of
healthcare personnel. Spanish-speaking patients are grateful and
pleased that you are making an effort to communicate with them.
This module provides simple, useful medical conversation for many
general medical situations and medical subspecialties, including
emergency information, medical information, patient information;
and nursing and respiratory procedures
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