Roles of the Interpreter
True or False: The role of patient advocate must be used to resolve all misunderstandings.
What is false?
Diagnostic procedure that detects brain wave activity with the use of electrodes that are placed on the scalp.
What is EEG?
What is an EEG?
What is electroencephalogram?
What is an electroencephalogram?
The federally funded program designed to offer health insurance for individuals over the age of 65 and patients with ESRD.
What is Medicare?
True or False: Western medicine is based on biomedicine.
What is true?
True or False: medical/healthcare interpreters follow code of ethics and standards of practice established by IMIA, NCIHC, and CHIA
What is true?
The four roles of the interpreter.
What is conduit, clarifier, cultural broker (cultural clarifier), and patient advocate?
Commonly referred to as OB/GYN.
The Part of Medicare that covers prescription drugs.
What is Part D?
(What is D?)
A type of household consisting of grandparents, parents, and grandchildren.
What is multigenerational?
What is a multigenerational household?
True or False: Small gifts of food from patients and their families may be graciously accepted and shared with other staff, when culturally appropriate.
What is true?
When an interpreter asks a provider what an unfamiliar medical term means, they are assuming this role of the interpreter.
What is a clarifier?
What is clarifier?
What is the role of clarifier?
What is the role of the clarifier?
This healthcare specialty involves diagnosis and treatments of autoimmune disorders.
What is Rheumatology?
The title of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that established CLAS.
What is Title 6/VI?
What is 6/VI?
Another name for complimentary medicine which consists of:
Acupuncture, Biofeedback, Chiropractic adjustments, Massage therapy, Meditation, mindfulness and guided imagery, Music therapy, Reiki, Vitamins and herbal supplements
What is alternative medicine?
What is holistic medicine?
The code of ethic or tenet that a medical interpreter is upholding when they decline to interpret legal matters.
What is professionalism?
What is/are role boundaries?
What is scope of practice?
An interpreter informed a provider that the belief of being exposed to cold temperatures leading to respiratory illnesses is prevalent in the community of the patient being treated. In this situation, the interpreter assumed this role.
What is a cultural broker?
What is a cultural clarifier?
The suffix that means, "to surgically remove."
What is -ectomy?
The expanded form of the acronym HIPAA.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
Another name for Traditional Chinese Medicine.
What is Eastern Medicine?
Interpreters will not interject personal opinions or counsel patients as they follow this code of ethic/tenet.
What is impartiality?
An interpreter that is interpreting everything that is said during a session is assuming this role of the interpreter.
What is a conduit?
What is conduit?
What is the role of conduit?
What is the role of the conduit?
Commonly known by the acronym ERCP.
What is endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography?
Known in healthcare by the acronym, CLAS.
What is/are Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services?
The type of culture that focuses on the group instead of on the individual.
What is collectivistic?
What is collectivism?
An interpreter that keeps abreast of working languages and their variants by continuously updating their personal glossaries is adhering to this code of ethic/tenet.
What is professional development?