Abstract

Patients who do not speak English as their primary language suffer from worse patient outcomes than patients who do speak English as their primary language. Utilizing a professional interpreter for all patient encounters has been proven to improve healthcare disparities among this patient population. A surgical oncology unit has the opportunity to improve utilization of readily available interpreters when interacting with this patient population. Increasing implementation of interpreter use will hopefully lead to many improved patient outcomes.

Date of publication

Spring 4-19-2021

Document Type

MSN Capstone Project (Local Access)

Language

english

Persistent identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10950/3683

Degree

MSN-FNP

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