The Patient's Language

I think providing healthcare instructions in the patient’s language are essential. The lack of understanding between a patient and their healthcare provider can lead to negative patient outcomes, medical errors and lack of patient participation in care decisions (Guiton, Dunne, & Finlay, 2017). At my hospital, we use interpreters to translate for patients throughout their stay and at discharge. We use telephone translation services for when the professional interpreter is not available. We find it important because the majority of the care we provide involves verbal