Interpreting for parents instead of patients can be complicated. Here are some tricky situations, and one simple solution!
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Nobody Wants to Talk to You
The best interpreters are the ones you might notice the least! This is the intricate balance that interpreters must maintain between personable and professional.
When Interpreting Services Fall Short (Part 1)
This is the first in a two-part series that highlights scenarios when interpreting services did not meet expectations and some specific learnings from the situations.
How Neutrality Killed Impartiality
Working with people gives interpreters all sorts of opportunities to form opinions based on what we see. Sometimes we encounter exchanges or treatments that we don’t agree with personally.
Interpreter Certification, Why Bother?
Excerpt: Healthcare and Medical Interpreter certification has existed in the United States for several years. Is it worth pursuing? This article explores one angle interpreters should consider when answering that question for themselves.
Show Me the Money! Healthcare's Guide to Buying Language Services
Money talks and it is the pathway to success for health care and all medical interpreters. Learn how standards, consistency and efficiency in operations can have healthcare showing you the money!
How a Friday Night Fish Fry Changed My Life
I never thought working at a super club would change my life, but in so many ways it did. It became the catalyst for the design of my scheduling department. How can we effectively run a business if we don't look at the big picture, all the while keeping our customers happy and our interpreters busy.
Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: How Consistency Can Save Interpreting
Consistency in any service, from a grocery store, to banks, to the doctor office, needs to be a consistent system. If Google marries Siri, will that fix all the variables for a consistent experience where ever you go? Let's hope that isn't the answer.
That's Not My Job... Or is it? Defining a Role That Matters in Healthcare
Defining the medical interpreter job can be tricky. If interpreters and their champions can't define the role, how will healthcare ever value it?
Squinting, Hummingbird, Scab, Treasure: A Linguistic Journey into Medical Interpreting
Are you a word wizard that occasionally gets stuck on the most mundane words? Interpreters work through this every day and can challenge the most powerful wizards of all!
Interpreters Are Not Editors
Interpreters need to convey an accurate message, not edit the speaker’s message or style of speech.
The Best Interpreter Ever
What does your professional journey look like so far? Where are you headed? Use this exercise to map your professional experiences and goals.
The Top 5 Reasons Interpreters Should Attend NCIHC’s Annual Membership Meeting
Prior to going to Portland, Maine, the only thing I knew about the city was that it had good seafood. It turns out that Portland is much more diverse than I ever expected.
Proposal: New Prerequisite for Healthcare Interpreters
All healthcare interpreters should experience what it's lik to rely on an interpreter for their own communication needs.
In Search of Bright Spots in the News
Being in touch with current events is relevant to the work of medical interpreters, but it can get overwhelming and exhausting. Be sure to find bright spots when keeping up on the news.