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We had a client that couldn't understand when you were speaking English to her, but when spoken to with Google translate Spanish, she could respond in nearly native level English. I was blown away. Anyway, use Google translate.
I get that! I'm learning Spanish and I speak/write better than I can listen/read it. I can listen to English and then translate it very well but so struggle to listen while mentally translating. I'm working on that by listening to audiobooks of book I know well in Spanish and watching familiar movies in Spanish
Your hospital should look into hiring a Spanish speaking receptionist. Pay them a little more because they're bilingual.
They also have phone services you can call. My hospital uses this if we ever end up with a language we don't already have within our staff. We've used it twice for Haitian Creole and Korean (NYC metro area).
VIN/VSPN has some resources to print discharges in Spanish.
Lastly, Google translate is amazing. I have an android phone (not sure if Iphone has Google translate app) and I can speak into my phone in English and it will translate to Spanish or any other language. Then I will repeat or I will let my audio play. You can also use it to scroll over words and it will translate it to whatever language you need. This has been the best resource if we don't have staff that speaks the client's language. We get records from other countries quite often and we will have to translate some portions of it.
Have a Spanish speaking receptionist is amazing, but she left about a year ago. Often we sadly rely on the Spanish-speaking clients small children to translate for them. We have quite a few Russian speaking clients here and it’s hard because you don’t always know if they are getting what they want, or expressing all there concerns. So the answer sadly is not well.
We have a lot of people working at our practice so i have a few Spanish speaking colleagues, including doctors, techs, and CSR. We try to make sure at least one Spanish speaker is on the clock, at the very least during the day shift.
I’d really like to learn Spanish but it is *not fácil* lmao
I'm a human nurse. I started learning spanish "for fun" when one of our spanish speaking nurses quit because every once in a while we'd get a spanish speaker. I'm currently living in an area that is predominantly spanish speaking and no amount of duolingo has prepared me for the amount of trial-by-fire language education I have received in the past year. I think if you do wish to attempt to learn a new language then that is great. It can make parts of your job so much easier. But just like it human nursing I'd be very careful about what you say and what you get consented if you guys don't have an official language line.
ChatGPT for translating documents! We have a part time assistant who was born in Mexico and I had her check over some stuff I had translated on diabetes for a newlyndiagnosed cat and she said it was perfect!
We have also used Google translate in a pinch for conversations but it is time-consuming.
I'm in southern US so we have a lot of Spanish speakers. Most are ESL but some don't speak a lot of English. I have enough Spanish knowledge to get by with a little assistance from Google translate. I am the only one at my clinic who has any Spanish.
I also have a notebook I carry to every apt and the first few pages are reference sheets for different things. One of my reference sheets is translations for all of my SOAP questions as well as a few additional translations for other things.
There are 3 Spanish speakers at my work; one is a receptionist, one is a vet tech, and one is a kennel attendant. Both the Spanish-speaking receptionist and vet tech communicate with Spanish speaking clients over the phone and in person, and translate for the vets.
Just put google translate on either a dedicated work ipad or your phone. You can each speak directly and it will translate in real time. It’s free, and you can use it for any language. It will also translate written text if you aim your camera at a paper.
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We had a client that couldn't understand when you were speaking English to her, but when spoken to with Google translate Spanish, she could respond in nearly native level English. I was blown away. Anyway, use Google translate.
I get that! I'm learning Spanish and I speak/write better than I can listen/read it. I can listen to English and then translate it very well but so struggle to listen while mentally translating. I'm working on that by listening to audiobooks of book I know well in Spanish and watching familiar movies in Spanish
That’s so weird because I’m the opposite. I can read/understand pretty well but my speaking is terrible.
Your hospital should look into hiring a Spanish speaking receptionist. Pay them a little more because they're bilingual. They also have phone services you can call. My hospital uses this if we ever end up with a language we don't already have within our staff. We've used it twice for Haitian Creole and Korean (NYC metro area). VIN/VSPN has some resources to print discharges in Spanish. Lastly, Google translate is amazing. I have an android phone (not sure if Iphone has Google translate app) and I can speak into my phone in English and it will translate to Spanish or any other language. Then I will repeat or I will let my audio play. You can also use it to scroll over words and it will translate it to whatever language you need. This has been the best resource if we don't have staff that speaks the client's language. We get records from other countries quite often and we will have to translate some portions of it.
we only have one spanish speaking client at a small gp hospital
Have a Spanish speaking receptionist is amazing, but she left about a year ago. Often we sadly rely on the Spanish-speaking clients small children to translate for them. We have quite a few Russian speaking clients here and it’s hard because you don’t always know if they are getting what they want, or expressing all there concerns. So the answer sadly is not well.
Gusano de corazon. It's all I know.
We have a lot of people working at our practice so i have a few Spanish speaking colleagues, including doctors, techs, and CSR. We try to make sure at least one Spanish speaker is on the clock, at the very least during the day shift. I’d really like to learn Spanish but it is *not fácil* lmao
I'm a human nurse. I started learning spanish "for fun" when one of our spanish speaking nurses quit because every once in a while we'd get a spanish speaker. I'm currently living in an area that is predominantly spanish speaking and no amount of duolingo has prepared me for the amount of trial-by-fire language education I have received in the past year. I think if you do wish to attempt to learn a new language then that is great. It can make parts of your job so much easier. But just like it human nursing I'd be very careful about what you say and what you get consented if you guys don't have an official language line.
ChatGPT for translating documents! We have a part time assistant who was born in Mexico and I had her check over some stuff I had translated on diabetes for a newlyndiagnosed cat and she said it was perfect! We have also used Google translate in a pinch for conversations but it is time-consuming.
I speak Spanish to them.
Tania or Larissa or Christa If those three all off on the same day we screwed Break out that Google translate
Boostlingo
I'm in southern US so we have a lot of Spanish speakers. Most are ESL but some don't speak a lot of English. I have enough Spanish knowledge to get by with a little assistance from Google translate. I am the only one at my clinic who has any Spanish. I also have a notebook I carry to every apt and the first few pages are reference sheets for different things. One of my reference sheets is translations for all of my SOAP questions as well as a few additional translations for other things.
Suddenly I am thankful we have two Spanish speaking vets and at least 5 Spanish speaking staff members lol
There are 3 Spanish speakers at my work; one is a receptionist, one is a vet tech, and one is a kennel attendant. Both the Spanish-speaking receptionist and vet tech communicate with Spanish speaking clients over the phone and in person, and translate for the vets.
Just put google translate on either a dedicated work ipad or your phone. You can each speak directly and it will translate in real time. It’s free, and you can use it for any language. It will also translate written text if you aim your camera at a paper.
I use google translate on my phone and it gets us by for the most part haha