Interpreting for palliative care

Content

Palliative care seeks to optimize quality of life and to relieve physical and emotional suffering through pain management, comfort care, and spiritual support. It relies on regular, clear communication between patients, providers, and families. Interpreters are key members of any palliative care team serving LEP families.

For interpreters, conversations involving palliative care are often very difficult to convey. This is especially true with patients who are at the end of their life. The challenge is not only linguistic, it is also cultural and emotional.

This 8-hour workshop, designed by a team of interpreters and palliative care specialists, has been created to support interpreters who work in such settings. It includes:

An Introduction to Palliative Care
Interpreting Skills Applied to Palliative Care
The Vocabulary of Palliative Care
Sight Translation in Palliative Care
The Impact of Emotion and Belief on Interpreting

This multimedia, interactive training includes videos, PowerPoint presentations, vocabulary exercises and practice of both consecutive interpreting and sight translation. Bilingual medical glossaries and practice activities are provided in Cantonese/traditional Chinese, Mandarin/simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.

The trainer

Cindy Roat, MPH, is a trainer of interpreters, educators and healthcare providers, and a consultant to healthcare facilities, helping them improve their language access services. An internationally renowned trailblazer in the healthcare interpreting field, Cindy is a founding member and past Co-chair of the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care, a founding member of the Washington State Coalition on Language Access (WASCLA), and a former board member of the Northwest Translators and Interpreters Society (NOTIS), where she organizes and teaches workshops for healthcare interpreters. Cindy is widely recognized as an engaging public speaker and assiduous advocate for limited-English-proficient populations.

Registration

For regular, individual registrations, please scroll up and click on the Register button.

For all the other options:

Team sign-up. Find two other interpreters to sign up with you, fill out this form and receive a 10% discount.

Any Class Bundle. You get an 8% discount if you sign up for any two classes we offer within the year at once here.

Early bird registration. Use the following discount code at the checkout when registering by October 11th for a 5% discount: EBPCFL23

Employer registration. If you would like your employer to pay for your professional development, please have them fill out and submit this form.

Requirements for completion

Please read carefully the following requirements for completion:

To receive a Certificate of Successful Completion, participants have to attend 100% of the course. Participants are required to be on time for every class and to not leave before the end of the class.

Arcos Institute will issue the Certificate of Completion within 1 week from the last day of training.

Obtaining CE Credits with DSHS: Please read paragraph 4.7.4 CE activities on page 46 of the LTC Gateway User Manual. We cannot guarantee that this resource is always up to date. For more accurate information, please contact the organization at dshsct@dshs.wa.gov or visit the website.

Obtaining CE Credits with CCHI: Please read page 20 of the CCHI_Renewal_Handbook. We cannot guarantee that this resource is always up to date. For more accurate information, please contact the organization at renewal@cchicertification.org please or visit the website.

Obtaining CE Credits with IMIA (for NBCMI): For more information please contact the organization at staff@certifiedmedicalinterpreters.org please or visit the website.

If you have any concerns, please reach out to the organization as we cannot answer specific questions regarding your status or any other query.

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