Best Practices for Working With Medical Interpreters

⏰ 30 minutes

🏆 0.5 ANCC and ACCME Continuing Education credit available

📜 Certificate of Completion
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Separate versions for Nurses, Physicians, and Allied Health Care Providers

Why This Course?

Working with medical interpreters is a vitally important part of caring for patients with limited English proficiency. However, being unable to speak directly to patients can be stressful and poses unique challenges. Whether you are experienced at working with medical interpreters or brand new, this brief eLearning experience will help support your practice by describing best practices and tips and tricks for working with medical interpreters.

This course includes both a 30 minute eLearning experience that provides crucial information in an engaging manner and provides a real patient story to illustrate the importance of following best practices. Additional information and a Job Aid with Do's and Dont's are included.

Learning Objectives

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the unique challenges patients with limited ability to communicate in English face in healthcare.
  • Describe when, why, and how to work with qualified medical interpreters.
  • Apply best practices, tips, and tricks for working with medical interpreters.

Enroll in the Course for Your Profession

Nurses


Physicians, APNs, PAs

Allied Health Care Providers

What your colleagues say

This was a great presentation and represented this important topic well.
Great learning tools to help us serve ALL patients. Thank you for the reminders and new ideas. 
Great training on a very important topic not only in health care, but in our everyday lives.
Not what I expected - I loved it!
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