Bilingual nurses?

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Is anybody taking classes in a foreign language to prepare themselves for nursing? Does anyones school curriculum include foreign language as a requirement? I have been thinking that learning Spanish would be a very good thing to do. I wonder if there are Spanish courses geared specifically toward those in the medical field?

Kim

I forget words all the time. I thought I was having early oldtimer's disease!

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Specializes in tele, stepdown/PCU, med/surg.
Originally posted by globalRN

I am currently in Hong Kong so I did try learning Mandarin to communicate with patients.

Isn't Cantonese actually what they speak in Hong Kong? There probably are a lot of Mandarin speakers too there.

If it were up to me, I'd make sure all nurses/officials etc... spoke Spanish in Texas, California, Florida, and New York..but that's just is me :).

I have a great recommendation for a 'Spanish for Healthcare Prof" book. It is 'ProSpanish Healthcare Spanish for Nurses" and it is the best I've seen. I've seen hundres of "learn Spanish" books and many of them I find serious faults with. This one covers practically anything you could want to ask or discuss with a patient including chapters for certain diseases/situations. It comes with three audio tapes. Let me give you the ISBN: 0-658-00857-9

Z

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Specializes in MS Home Health.

Thanks I am going to ask for a spanish speaking software kit. I will keep the medical spanish information for future use.

renerian

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I am hoping to take Spanish in the Spring. I already know sign language. I am not sure if where you all are employed but here they pay you a little xtra if you know these

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Specializes in MS Home Health.

How cool is that your paid more! Neat!

renerian

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