Hindi, The Most Essential Component Of Human Communication

Establishing effective communication with the patient is a critical factor in promoting patient quality care. Good communication is fundamental when providing safe and effective care at the beside in order to increase the quality of patient care. One of the many communicative barriers that exists between patients and the healthcare team are language barriers. Language barriers are considered an initial problem of translation or code-switching. Individuals who speak different languages require a certain code breaker in order to facilitate effective communication (Gregg & Saha, 2007). Furthermore, language barriers may hinder the quality of patient care and interfere with optimal clinical outcomes. According to Happ et al., 2011, nurses have the unique responsibility to engage in communication with patients and have control over the timing and method of communication. Evidenced based interventions such as communication boards are needed to improve nurses’ communication skills in order to achieve effective communication.

Can you imagine the how the healthcare industry would be without language, what seems to be impossible to imagine is the everyday reality of some patients because of their native language. Language is a major contribution to the health disparities that some populations face, because it makes it difficult for some patients to communicate their problems as well as understand the care they provided. Language contributes to the health disparities that some populations face because it creates a barrier between the patient and the care provider, making it difficult for a patient to receive proper care. Language barriers create a communication gap between a patient and a provider, forcing the patient to feel misunderstood and unable to trust his/her provider to properly care for them. I come from a family that speaks more than one language, so I have seen the impact language barriers can have on someone who doesn’t speak fluent English.

According to the 2011 U.S. Census, twenty-one percent of the population speaks other language at home besides English. Hence, one of the biggest challenges in Healthcare is the language barrier between the providers, Health care administrators and patients that speak foreign languages. This poses a challenge for medical entities,

Non-English speaking citizens and immigrants are receiving improper medical care because of the miscommunication. The people who cannot speak English well are misunderstood, when they go to free clinics or hospital emergency rooms and attempt to explain their symptoms and illness or cannot understand the doctors or medical profession that are trying to help them. ” Interpreters are omitting questions about drug allergies. Patients are not telling nurses the correct symptoms. A mother misunderstood by putting oral antibiotic into the ears of the child instead of the mouth. The Puerto Rican word for mumps is not the same in Central America, so a child was mistreated. A doctor mistakenly told a parent to put a steroid crème on entire child instead of just the face” (Yolanda Prtida, 2005). Language barriers in the medical field are dangerous and some times even fatal. There is definitely a need for more translators in hospitals and doctors office. Clear communication is essential for safe quality healthcare. Poor communication can lead to disastrous outcomes, especially for patients with limited or no English ability.

Language Barrier: Communication can be difficult if English is not the resident’s first language. Highfield Healthcare should look at employing bilingual staff to overcome this problem.

3: The use of language (language barrier) is one difficulty that may arise when trying to implement anti-discriminatory practice in the health and social care settings. Administration client that utilize the administration of health

Class,  In our first DQ, we discussed the various cultural barriers that we might see on a routine basis; however there are still many more barriers to effective communication.  These might be more associated with physical and psychological barriers.  Here are two real-world questions that we most of us will encounter throughout our health care career regularly... How might a provider communicate more effectively with a person who is hearing impaired? Also, how might a provider communicate more effectively with an adolescent versus an adult?

Lor et al. (2016) examined the growing problem of language barriers for patients in the United States and around the world. The use of interpreters is often the solution to bridge the gap between languages. The purpose of this study was to examine patient perception of interpreter services.The population for this study included 10 English proficient Hmong patients and 10 Spanish speaking patients. The participants ranged from age 33 to 75 years old. The intervention was that poor quality interpretation could lead to poor relationships among patients, interpreters and providers. In addition poor interpretation could end up in the patient being unable to follow through with treatment plans. Lastly, poor quality interpretation can lead to emotional distress for patients. Comparison was that patients have expectations on how the

2. Language: Language can have a significant impact on multiple aspects of the health care of Hispanic children, including access, health status, use of services, and outcomes. The lack of Spanish speaking health care staff and inadequate interpreter services are the principle problems associated with language barriers. Research has shown that medical interpreters are not called when needed, inadequately trained, or not available at all (Flores, Afflick & Barbot, 2002).

In my understanding, a language is a useful tool of communication in the health sector that lack of it can prevent the success of health care. A language barrier is one of the things that went wrong between Lia’s family and the doctors. A language education that is oral and writing is needed in the health care system to make effective health care services. In the book, "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down," Lia’s parents can speak only Hmong, and they don't speak, read or understand English. So it became challenging to them any time they visit Merced's hospital to express themselves. Because "there have been no Hmong-speaking employees of any kind present in the hospital..." For instance, "Foua and Nao Kao had no way of explaining what had happened since Lia’s seizures had stopped by the time they reached the hospital." As well as the doctors don't understand their language, so it makes their work tough. Like "the doctors on the late shift in the emergency room have often had no way of taking a patient's medical history and much more." The doctors misdiagnosed Lia's first seizure condition just because they are unable to communicate with Lia's parents since they had no Hmong interpreters in the hospital. Another example, Lia's father signed a document that spelled his name, his wife name, and their language wrong and other materials with an instruction they did not understand. Like this instruction: "I hereby acknowledge receipt of the instruction noted above," to wit: 'Take ampicillin as

Effective communication with patients is critical to the safety and quality care. From the last two decades ,number of researches has been conducted on the impact of language barrier on health and healthcare. It is observed that language barriers are the main cause of medical errors, complication and adverse event. But due to data limitations ,limited researches on impacts of language barrier has been conducted in Canadian setting. However, the researches conducted on other countries on the impact of language barrier on quality of care is applicable in the Canadian context. Some researches shows that there are several barrier which affect quality of care and patient safety. Now, researches has begun to know the complexity of language, culture, race, health literacy that may affect patient care. Current approaches are moved towards the knowledge of risk of language barrier rather than implementation of effective, evidence informed strategies.

To communicate seems easy enough to most of us. We have been doing this from the moment we were born. We expressed ourselves with grunts, moans, crying, smiling and yelling. We started communicating even before we made words with our nonverbal forms of communication. Communication is important. It allows individuals to share information and messages in the form of ideas and feelings (Giger, 2013). It gives us direction and allows us to interact with others. Can you image getting the entertainment system in parts in the mail with no instructions as to how to put it together? It is essential that we all communicate effectivity in order to ensure the best quality of care. Language barriers threaten the patient safety and overall quality of care of these individuals. By having efficient practices in place it will lower those risks and increase quality care.

To determine the impact of language barriers on informed consent documentation in a clinical setting. We found from different research patients who spoke English were almost twice as likely as patients with limited English proficiency to have documentation of informed consent for 3 invasive medical procedures while hospitalized at a large urban hospital with on-site interpreter services. The relationship between primary language and informed consent documentation was not affected by patient age, gender, primary diagnosis, procedure, or medical service. The differences we found in rates of informed consent documentation between LEP and English-speaking patients are substantial and suggest disparities in the process of informed consent. Whereas

Communication through language performs a pivotal role in a human life as it sustains it and therefore essential. Of course, various means of communication like gestures and others can never replace the use of a language in a human life. A human being is a God’s creation, but a language is a human creation. The same information in one language can be communicated differently through different languages depending on culture, region, religion, politics and above all the society of the speaker of a particular language. The interaction between two persons of two diverse nations would be completely impossible due to the absence of knowledge of the other’s language with each other. Thus, the same situation extends itself to even at the level of a

The use of language is one of the greatest necessities of life. Language is the key to