healthcare professional is communicating with a patient
When a healthcare professional is communicating with a patient, he or she might find some difficulties emanating from language barriers. Consequently, communication becomes ineffective, thus disrupting the whole process of care provision. Some of the specific that may occur when there is a language barrier include:
- The patient with limited English proficiency may not understand instructions when prescribed medical procedures and hence end up following the wrong medical instructions when undertaking medical care. Such may result in life-threatening consequences.
- Low health literacy, sometimes related to language barriers, may not be discovered. Hence, clinicians belatedly end up using their jargon medical instruction, not knowing the patient is illiterate and unable to write or read. This result to force hope to health practitioners thinking they have offered service to the patient
- Cultural differences affect words’ meanings, sentences, and perspective, which form language. This may lead to stereotyping individuals and the risk of underestimating health practitioners affecting the efficiency of communication. The resulting impact is ignorance and egocentrism
Proper implementation of sustainable, reliable, and effective practices need to be incorporated on the redesign of an appropriate working process in healthcare delivery of services. Getting a third-party reimbursement hospital-based interpreters to translate (Bonvillain, 2019). Also, one may decide to examine the patient using a questionnaire hence getting exert respondent information to what patient need (Gopalan & Pershad (2019). If the relatives are around, I may decide to get information from them. One may choose to use some use of simple language vocabularies that are basic and can be understood by the patient