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How to Create Collaborative Healthcare Interpreter Teams
Here are four things managers can do to foster collaboration among their team of healthcare interpreters.
Collaboration: A Win-Win for Medical Interpreters and their Managers
Collaboration is the first of six steps to creating a great place for medical interpreters to work. (It is also a benefit for their managers!)
Attention: Interpreter Managers
This is the first post in a series that focuses on six steps to creating a great place for medical interpreters to work.
Medical Interpreter Dress Code: Tops
This post in our Dress Code series focuses on selecting the right top so that you are seen as a professional medical interpreter at first-glance.
Language Access Services: Who’s Responsible for Success?
When it comes to providing excellent language access services, no one is off the hook.
The Blood and Guts of Interpreting
Interpreters are exposed to the same stress that healthcare providers endure. Yet this issue has only recently been addressed in interpreter training.
The ABCs of Interpreting in Pediatrics
Interpreting in pediatrics is unique to other settings in that interpreters, like pediatricians, are dealing with young patients and their caregivers.
Language & Microaggression of Victims and Perpetrators: The Medical Interpreter's Experience
Being aware of microaggressions is one of those little big things we can do as professionals to ensure better understanding to those we serve - patients, providers, and colleagues.
3 Ways for Medical Interpreter Managers to Create a Good Work Environment
These are three things medical interpreter managers can do to create a good work environment for their team:
4 Ways to Make a Bad Impression
Here are four ways medical interpreters can make a bad impression. (It is my most sincere wish that you avoid all of them.)
Medical Interpreter Dress Code: What Not to Wear
This post in the series on a dress code fore medical interpreters focuses on colors, how to select them to your professional advantage and what to avoid.
Interpreting for Children and Parents
The purpose of this paper is to leave you with an overview of how pediatric encounters differ from adult ones, as well as a concrete set of strategies you can use in order to minimize the potential for errors and the stress associated with the encounter, while maximizing your accuracy.
ID Badges: Don't crowd precious real estate
In the last post I introduced the idea of a dress code for medical interpreters. There is one thing that all dress codes need: The ID Badge.
Good Book on Interpreting in Healthcare May Have Wrong Title
Beverly Treumann shares insights on her presentation for the 2014 California Health Care Interpreting Association's Educational Conference, which focuses on the content of the California Standards for Healthcare Interpreters: Ethical Principles, Protocols, and Guidance on Roles & Intervention.