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Produced by Christine Wilson Owens and Leon Reines, Harborview Medical Center
July 2006
"These pages were developed with nurses and interpreters to aid caregivers in communicating basic information to their patients. Use of the pages requires no prior knowledge of the patient's language, but requires that a patient be able to read and point to a written response. These pages are not meant to be a substitute for using a qualified interpreter. Rather, they are a basic communication aid for nurses providing comfort and care to patients. For more complex communication needs, always use an interpreter."
Languages for Nurse-Patient Communication Pages
Each PDF document is 3 pages, including target language and English.
| Amharic | Greek * | Polish * | Tagalog |
| Arabic | Khmer | Romanian ** | Tigrinya |
| Chinese - Simplified | Korean | Russian | |
| Chinese - Traditional | Lao | Somali | |
| Farsi | Oromo | Spanish |
* Note: The Greek and Polish translations have not been reviewed.
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Thanks to Camelia Ades, RN, MSN, MPH for contributing the Romanian
translation through EthnoMed's student author program "Contibution
Pathways". For more information about this program, send a message to
EthnoMed staff via the Comments link at the bottom of this page.