Today's medical professionals must adapt to meet
the challenges that come with the growing diversity
in the health care population demographic. Some of
these challenges are not only linguistic but also
cultural at their root. This often necessitates that
health care providers learn to clearly and effectively
communicate with patients and their relatives in a
second language.
 The
reality for many health care professionals is that
Spanish is the first language of a large percentage
of the population served. Miscommunication and misunderstanding
of critical information can have a negative impact
on every day patient care, not to mention situations
where matters of life and death are at stake.
Possessing
the ability to speak basic Spanish will reduce the
need for providers to enlist the services of an
interpreter for common everyday communication tasks.
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