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Improving Care for Patients with a Non-English Language Preference (NELP)

EMDocs

12 How do we address these disparities in the emergency department? Well-meaning providers who are not highly fluent may contribute to miscommunication and diagnostic errors. Providers should respect and utilize this mode of communication, as well as document the patient’s request for a non-certified interpreter.

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We stand open and ready … (Whoever you are … )

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

An ambulance pulls up, in haste, to the Receiving door of the Emergency Department with a last squeal of the siren. If we expect to call for help from agencies with Hollywood’s black SUVs and sunglasses, or SWAT units, they will be too late for the worst harm will have been done in the first fifteen minutes (Oklahoma City).