Re: [NIFL-HEALTH:2859] Re: Hospital Patient Ed. Materials

From: Cyndi Phillips (phillipscyndi@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 16 2001 - 00:19:55 EST 

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From: "Cyndi Phillips" <phillipscyndi@hotmail.com>
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Penny,
If you have your materials translated into Spanish so they're "exactly the same format", how do you know if it's culturally appropriate for your Latino audience? Sometimes --- no,often --- different formats are warranted.

Cyndi
email: phillipscynid@hotmail.com

>From: "penny nolan"
>Reply-To: nifl-health@nifl.gov
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:2859] Re: Hospital Patient Ed. Materials
>Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 18:11:23 -0500 (EST)
>
>We have a Patient and Family Education Committee (complete with
>Medical
>Staff representation) that reviews and approves all patient/family
>ed tools
>regardless of medium or origin. Almost all of our materials are
>created by
>education department staff (teaching plans, flipcharts, instruction
>tear
>sheets, etc). The only commercially produced materials we purchase
>are
>videos.
>
>We use a professional translator service to convert our English text
>to
>Spanish so that we can provide exactly the same format.
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>
>
>>..for those of you who work at hospitals or clinics:
>>
>>Do you have a committee or other governing body that reviews and
>>approves
>>all print patient education materials before they are given to
>>patients?
>>Does your process differ with materials created in-house versus
>>those from
>>outside agencies?
>>Do you have a system where you have a standing "endorsement" of
>>materials
>>from a particular company or do you review each piece of
>>material.....
>
>Penny Nolan
>Director, Human Resources and Education
>Polly Ryon Memorial Hospital
>Richmond, Texas
>(281)341-4885
>pennyn@hotmail.com
>
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