A Practical Guide to Language Barriers in Health Care.What Language Does Your Patient Hurt In?

What Language Does Your Patient Hurt In?
A Practical Guide to the Culturally Competent Health Care

Suzanne Salimbene, Ph.D. Revised Second Edition

Now You Can Have, at Your Finger-tips, A PRACTICAL GUIDE CONTAINING:

Tips for Appropriate Care & Treatment of People from Diverse Cultural, Linguistic, and Religious Backgrounds

Keys to developing successful patient-caregiver relationships

Culturally Specific health beliefs and practices of:

African Americans
American Indians
Asians (Chinese, Koreans, Southeast Asians, Filipinos, Hmong)
Eastern Europeans (Bosnians, Poles, Russians)
Hispanics
Peoples from the Middle East (Egyptians, Iranians, Etc.)

What Language Does Your Patient Hurt In?

Revised edition includes:

new updated material and reading lists for each chapter
expanded Introduction including patient interview questions that enable caregivers to develop a cultural profile of each individual patients health, illness, and illness prevention beliefs and practices.
expanded Tips for Improving the Cross-Cultural Caregiver/Patient Relationship, Tips for Determining the Individual Etiquette, Beliefs and Practices of Patients from Other Cultures, and Tips For Diet And Nutrition Assessment and Counseling.
a new on the possible effect of religious beliefs on health/illness practices that includes religious beliefs of the Amish, Christian Scientists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Mormons, as well as a set of Tips for Offering Appropriate Care to Diverse Religious Groups.

Carry this handy, pocket-sized guide in your lab coat for "on the spot" information

Train medical and nursing staff in cultural awareness, sensitivity and culturally appropriate care

Use as a text in building medical school and nursing school curricula for cultural competence

Assist your entire institution in meeting criteria for cultural and linguistic competence as required by:

Department of Health & Human Services

Office of Minority Health National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Competent Care

Joint Commission on the Accreditation of HealthCare Organizations (JCAHO)

Health Care Finance Administration (HCFA)

About the Author:

Suzanne Salimbene, Ph.D., a much sought-after keynote, dinner, and conference speaker, is president of Inter-Face International. Dr. Salimbene offers customized skills-based workshops for physicians, nurses, administrators, managers, and pharmaceutical companies.

Dr. Salimbene has published in the 1999 Guide to Managed Care Strategies: An Annual Report on the Latest Practices and Policies in the Managed Care Environment (Faulkner & Gray), The Journal of Nursing Care Quality, Aspen's Advisor for Nurse Executives, and California Medicine. Culturally Competent Care, Inter-Face International's quarterly newsletter, has a broad subscription base of hospitals, HMOs, private practices, and diversity trainers throughout the country.

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