A Brief Note On Language And Communication Barriers

The first article discussed about the issue of language barrier between workers and clients. Language barrier is a serious issue to human services as it has a high impact on one’s life. This became a problem due to the low access of interpreters for individuals and the only way to communicate was by uneffective description of the current situation. By having limited amount of interpreters especially in the medical field, it lowers an individual to seek and find cure for their true needs. “When the girlfriend and her mother repeated the term, the non–Spanish-speaking paramedics took it to mean “intoxicated”; the intended meaning was “nauseated.” In this example, it shows how language barrier can cause wrongful interpretations for patients to receive the help they truly need. The model type of service delivery

Language is the basic means of human communication. It is used by every culture to share information, negotiate and direct others as well as to express emotions and ideas. Therefore, a language barrier between the nurse and patient can be a serious threat to transcultural communication (Munoz & Luckmann, 2008). When caring for a non-English speaking patient, a medical interpreter is essential for providing

Availability of health care services is an important dimension in access to health care. Providers are expected to deliver quality care to patients when it is needed. They should be able to provide care to everyone based on their needs. For instance, Spanish speaking elderly people expect some one who knows their language in their physician’s office. Language barrier can cause lot of issues such as conveying wrong message about a patients or physicians. Effective communication is essential for physicians and clients to explain and understand each other. There are patients who cannot make it their physician’s office due to lack of transportation. This can negatively affect their health status. An example would be patients who miss their dialysis due to lack of transportation.

barriers in healthcare because they speak a different language and are not able to communicate

Language can be a barrier or a bridge depending on how one facilitates its use. Being a monolingual hinders communication to others who speak a different language while being bilingual can create a bridge between nations, ethnicities, and cultures. Unfortunately, this “bridge” is being threatened by the legalization that impedes minorities, the first amendment, diversity, and the quality of education received in the U.S. Therefore, my stance is that the U.S. should not have an official language and that the state of Arkansas does not need language related legislation.

Barriers can get in the way of effective teaching and learning by both the patient and the nurse. The first barrier I ran into was the patient having a visual problem. Her eyes were dry from a medication so it was a distracting her from effectively listening to me. The other patient barrier I encountered was a cognitive barrier, which required me to use repetition so she could absorb the information I was telling her. My first personal barrier was I talked to fast and speeded through the information, next time I need to talk slower and clearer so the patient can better understand me. The other personal barrier that I encountered was the patient's husband keep critiquing the way I was teaching at the end so that threw me off. Next time I need to anticipate feedback from the family of the patient to better prepare myself.

In today’s American culture we are known as the ‘melting pot’. There are multiple races, backgrounds, traditions, and ways of life in America. With this comes different languages and difficult barriers to overcome weather it be at work or in the education programs. Currently in the U.S there are 311 different languages spoken (Gadling.com). English is no longer the primary language of America, with a whopping total of 14 million households alone that do not speak English as their primary language (Gadling.com). Therefore, how should we fix this language barrier?

Nobody’s born with the language they speak today. Everyone is born with a clean tongue that is transformed to make sounds and words that are native to their homeland and people they were raised by. Language can’t be described as a trait, like the color of your skin or the width of your shoulders. When society discriminates against individuals that speak differently, they are judging them based on how they were raised and how they were taught to speak, people don’t see them as just a person that didn’t have a choice of how they wanted to communicate, and conformed to fit into a puzzle of a whole area of people that sound the same way. I believe that people are molded by experience and adapt to the environment they were placed in. Life is

Barriers are when people clients are not able to access the services of the Medical Centre, these used in Health Services. Some of the most barriers include:

Barrier is defined as an obstacle or an obstruction in the development and progress of an individual or an activity. In an outpatient clinic where most of the therapy is accessible to the patient, there might be certain hindrances to the developmental progress. This usually is faced by patients and therapist as barriers of various forms.

The culture barrier that prevents the doctor from communicating effectively with patient is language. This is because they were passing through an interpreter so as to understand each other. Maybe the patient wants to tell something the doctor but because of uncommon language, the patient fails to say so. Additionally, the patient might have been uncomfortable because he was seeing another person there (interpreter). Another thing that was a barrier to the communication between the patient and the doctor is the way the doctor was asking things which might make the patient uncomfortable. For example, there is somewhere the patient was

Communication is key. When two year olds are told by their mothers to “use their words” when they groan and cry, it is the start of an understanding that the ability to communicate is the most powerful tool human kind has. Parents have told their children that once something is said it can never be taken back, and that is the power of words. They show feelings and thoughts in such a way that they can raise people up, or bring them crashing down with a single sentence. The ability to speak has allowed the human race to evolve from building small hovels into building great empires, and it is all due to the ability to share ideas through words. In the modern world, not only do people trade with those closest to them, but they are in partnerships with countries who are on the opposite side of the globe. With the invention of the internet, humans can now communicate with each other instantaneously. Yet they cannot always understand one another. There are language gaps and barriers that countries are failing to teach their children to close. The students in the United States will not be as internationally marketable compared to students in the rest of the world when they are falling behind in education. In order to compete and integrate globally, Americans must introduce foreign language earlier in school, embrace the benefits of bilingualism, and recognize the growing role of foreign language in all aspects of society.

A description of potential barriers to communication with service users in the chosen setting and an assessment of how these can be overcome

in a person's perception filters. These obstacles are part of the psychology that influences people

Language barrier in a health care setting relates to a lot of my family members and it is a topic I am interested in and wish to see changes as the years go by. I hope one day I am working as a Radiology technologist and see no patients having a difficult time communicating with any healthcare professional. Therefore, because of my current interest with language barriers in a healthcare setting research review, I will first be discussing problematic concepts within language barriers in the healthcare setting. First I will discuss about the fear it brings to non-English speaking patients then I will