Full Course Description
2-Day: Medical Spanish for Healthcare Professionals: Going Further to Bridge the Communication Gap
How often do you feel frustrated, when trying to care for a Spanish speaking patient?
You are trying to communicate well. The patient is trying. Family members might even be chiming in. But…the gap remains and you are apprehensive that important information is lost in translation.
It’s time to brush off your dusty Spanish skills and focus on medical conversations you really need. This course is for those who have a basic foundation of Spanish and are interested in expanding vocabulary that will be immediately beneficial in a mutitude of healthcare situations.
Bridge the communication gap with this intensive program, designed specifically for busy healthcare professionals like you who are ready to learn Spanish in an effective, non–threatening experience.
Imagine being able to apply conversational phrases to communicate so much more effectively with your Spanish speaking patients. Ultimately, you will improve clinical outcomes, reduce communication errors, potentially avoid medication errors and support patient satisfaction. Along the way, you’ll also ease your own worries, as you feel more confident in the communication you can incorporate into practice.
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze cultural considerations as a healthcare professional working with Spanish speaking patients.
- Develop questions for Spanish speaking patients to obtain a thorough history.
- Choose appropriate Spanish vocabulary terms to explore a chief complaint.
- Evaluate medical vocabulary to effectively collect vital signs, specimens, and diagnostic tests.
- Formulate questions in Spanish to complete a head-to-toe physical exam.
- Determine terminology for new prescription instructions.
- Plan for medical terminology related to emergency and first aid care.
- Practice quick phrases for allied health professionals (PT, OT, ST) in Spanish.
- Choose essential phrases to complete a nutrition assessment.
- Organize phrases to explain specialty and treatment diets.
- Collect social health and mental health histories in Spanish.
- Determine vocabulary to discuss pediatric health and illness.
- Analyze vocabulary terms specific to women’s health, pregnancy, and delivery.
- Evaluate factors that affect the delivery of culturally sensitive care.
Outline
Chief Complaint Identification
- Topics: Review Spanish grammar concepts, anatomical vocabulary, medical terms, and cultural concepts such as space, time, and social factors that impact health
- Clinical application: Identify a patient’s chief complaint and parts of the body in a patient interview
Medical History Taking
- Topics: Practice a patient interview and physical exam in Spanish
- Clinical application: Ask questions for initial contact with a patient, obtain a medical history, and primary symptoms
Hospital Setting
- Topics: Determine frequent vocabulary useful in a hospital setting
- Clinical application: Perioperative conversations, collection of vital signs, general nursing care and discharge education
Physical Exam
- Topics: Identify commands useful to completion of a physical exam
- Clinical application: Head to toe assessment, including each body system
Medications and Emergency Phrases
- Topics: Past tense verb conjugation, medication teaching, first aid and emergency care phrases
- Clinical application: Explain newly prescribed medications to patients, as well as emergency care phrases
Nutrition Conversations
- Topics: Food categories, nutrition assessment, measurements, special diets
- Clinical Application: Practice nutrition, diet, and food terminology
Social and Mental Health Conversations in Spanish
- Topics: Social and mental health concepts, family member vocabulary, emotions
- Clinical Application: Complete social and mental health assessments
Specialty Illnesses
- Topics: Diagnostic tests, cancer, HIV/AIDS, dental health, holistic health, vision care, perioperative terms, future tense verb conjugation
- Clinical Application: Use Spanish vocabulary and phrases to discuss diagnostic tests, diagnoses, and treatments
Women and Children
- Topics: Conversations for reproduction/birth control, pregnancy birth/delivery, STIs, pediatric safety, and school nurse conversations
- Clinical Application: Analyze vocabulary terms for women and children’s health issues
Cultural Competence
- Topics: Culture, dimensions of diversity, CLAS standards, models of cultural competence in healthcare
- Clinical Application: Explain the need to become culturally intelligent and culturally effective as a healthcare professional
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physical Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
- Speech
- Language Pathologists
- Physicians
- Dietitians
- Pharmacists
- Other allied healthcare professionals delivering patient care to Spanish speaking patients
Copyright :
10/20/2022
Ethnogeriatrics: Cultural Competence for Health Care Professionals
The number and proportions of older adults from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds is growing and expected to be one-third of the population by 2050. As a result, more than ever, you are responsible to provide culturally competent care. Tamatha Arms, PhD, DNP, PMHNP-BC, NP-C, will share highlights from her vast clinical experiences caring for diverse patient populations. An evidence-based cultural competence model will be integral to your own confident delivery of ethnogeriatric care afterwards!
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate Kleinman’s Explanatory Model for the care of culturally diverse patients.
- Differentiate the ways culture and ethnicity affect a patient’s response to healthcare providers.
- Apply the concepts of cultural humility when working with patients from diverse cultural groups.
Outline
- Ethnogeriatrics: Awareness of unique healthcare needs for diverse ethnic backgrounds
- Pentad of culture
- Acculturation: Demographics of older adults
- Impact of culturally competent care
- Kleinman’s Explanatory Model: Application to culturally competent care
- Cultural humility
- Ways culture affects healthcare: Beliefs and principles, meaning placed on values, actions and responses driven by values
- Religious beliefs
- Family network and support: Patriarchal vs. matriarchal structure
- Respect for authority
- Traditional foods and healing practices
- Cultural taboos
- End of life care decisions
- Use of interpreters
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Physician Assistants
- Physicians
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Speech Language Pathologists
- Social Workers
- Nursing Home Administrators
Copyright :
10/28/2021