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When words fail, pictures can keep communication alive.
How vital is communication between patient and caregiver or healthcare provider? We often take such communication for granted. But what happens when illness befalls or trauma occurs, or a medical procedure is needed, but the patient is unable to speak? Or language barriers prevent the communication from being understood?
To prevent communication breakdown in these situations, author Joan Green and illustrator Linda Comerford, with the assistance of nurses and speech pathologists, have produced this ready-made, targeted health care communication board.
This Spanish language board is:
designed for use in hospitals, rehab units, acute care, emergency rooms, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, clinics, hospice care and in the home.
appropriate for use by doctors, nurses, speech pathologists, EMT, medical technicians, healthcare workers and families.
FEATURES
Each tablet contains 50 tear-off boards, each of which provides:
a pain scale for describing where and how badly one hurts,
68-clear, 4-color pictures depicting wants, needs, ailments, comforts, questions, and emotions,
easy to understand instructions for patient response alternatives,
an alphabet for spelling out words, and
numbers for numerical information
BENEFITS
By helping to overcome the language barrier to communication, these Spanish Health Care boards can ease patient distress. The boards are:
easy to understand and use,
well-organized,
disposable for infection control,
inexpensive and ready-made,
adaptable (can be folded, cut or written on).
Hospitals, rehab units, acute care situations, emergency rooms, assisted living facilities, home care, clinics and nursing homes - among others - will find these easily understood and inexpensive augmentative communication boards invaluable in working with Spanish-speaking patients and clients.
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