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.

This class will be offered online. About a week before the first day of class, you will receive information on the simple steps you will take to be ready to join the class from your device.
We ask that you connect from a device with a big enough screen: please use a computer with a webcam or a laptop (no phone or Ipad/tablet).

This is an 8-hour training that spans over two consecutive Saturdays (half a session in the morning and half a session in the afternoon).
Participants who complete the training attend both Saturdays and all sessions.

For attending this class, continuing education credits will be granted by the following organizations:
WA DSHS
WA AOC
CCHI

Do you need credits for another organization? Contact us at: info@arcos.institute