BROOKFIELD, Wis., Sept. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare
professionals who struggle to communicate with Spanish-speaking
patients now have a free resource to sharpen their skills.
"Speedy Spanish for Healthcare Providers: Taking you beyond
¿Como Estas?" is a 30-minute introductory webinar from Nurse.com
and ContinuingEducation.com, two premier healthcare brands of
OnCourse Learning. The interprofessional 0.5-hour course is
accredited for nurses, along with professionals in dietetics and
nutrition.
The course is free through March 15,
2018 on Nurse.com and ContinuingEducation.com.
Making Spanish approachable
"In 30 minutes, we make Spanish more approachable," said
Maria Morales, MSN, RN, CPAN, who
serves as director of CNE programs, healthcare for OnCourse
Learning. "This course will give you the basics to build a
relationship with patients and families."
According to a 2015 study, the United
States is the world's second-largest Spanish-speaking
country, behind Mexico.
The study, by the non-profit Instituto Cervantes, said the U.S.
Census Office predicts the United
States will have 138 million Spanish speakers by 2050,
making it the largest Spanish-speaking nation.
Webinar host Tracey Long, PhD,
MS, RN, CDE, CNE, CHUC, CCRN, makes learning the basics of medical
Spanish engaging with pronunciation exercises, polls, translation
examples, and personal stories of communication successes and
failures.
"She makes it fun for everyone," Morales said. "Tracey loves to
help others learn. She takes learners from where they are now to
being confident communicators. This isn't an immersive course, but
Tracey builds a bridge to immersion."
Nurses can sign up for the free course via Nurse.com, while
professionals in dietetics and nutrition can visit
ContinuingEducation.com.
Healthcare professionals can take a deeper dive into learning
Spanish with the Focused CE Series "Spanish for Healthcare
Professionals," which provides 12 hours of continuing education
credit.
About the speaker
Long earned degrees in nursing and Spanish at Brigham Young University in Utah, a master's degree in public health from
the California College of Health
Sciences and an MSN/PhD in nursing education/nursing leadership
from UNLV/Charisma University.
She served for 18 months as a health nurse missionary in
Colombia and has developed Spanish
programs for healthcare professionals and diabetes education for
hospitals in the Las Vegas area,
where she now resides. As a nursing professor, she takes nurses and
nursing students on annual international trips to serve in
volunteer medical clinics.
Nurse.com and ContinuingEducation.com are trusted sources of CE
content for millions of professionals every year, providing
original and unbiased courses on thousands of healthcare-related
topics for 20 healthcare professions. Their parent company OnCourse
Learning is the largest provider of interprofessional CE content
with Joint Accreditation status, which serves the three largest
professions in healthcare: nursing, medicine and pharmacy. To learn
more, visit Nurse.com and ContinuingEducation.com. Healthcare
employers can provide access to the same interprofessional CE
content through OnCourse Learning's corporate solution, CE Direct.
To learn more, visit About.ContinuingEducation.com/CE-Direct.
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About OnCourse Learning
OnCourse Learning delivers
licensure, regulatory and compliance education solutions throughout
the nation's leading industries including financial services,
healthcare and real estate. Through trusted industry expertise,
compliance management and technology solutions, OnCourse Learning
focuses on advancing the e-learning environment for individuals and
businesses to help to build new careers, empower employees through
knowledge and identify efficiencies in corporate training
management. OnCourse Learning offers a full suite of educational
products including state and federally approved prelicensing and
continuing education programs, accredited course content, exam prep
tools, publications, e-books, events and a sophisticated and
customizable learning management system and course-authoring tool.
To learn more, visit OnCourseLearning.com.
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