Say It in Spanish: A Guide for Health Care Professionals (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Esperanza Villanueva Joyce (Author), Maria Elena Villanueva (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1995 | ISBN-10: 0721649556 | ISBN-13: 978-0721649559 | Edition: Edition Unstated

This guide enables English-speaking health care providers to communicate with Spanish-speaking patients. It focuses on practical language skills used in first aid and emergency situations, routine home visits, admission, and testing. Units 1-3 present typical questions and instructions used in the clinical setting; unit 4 includes additional vocabulary that the care professional might need; unit 5 offers an overview of Spanish grammar; and unit 6 describes cultural variations among Spanish-speaking groups, common health beliefs, and popular cures. The text includes typical "scenes", set in the hospital and community, in order to demonstrate the correct use of basic questions and statements - Spanish phrases are on the left, English translations on the right. At the end of each chapter there are short reviews, allowing readers to check their progress and understanding of ket terms. There is also a phrase index, which acts as a guide to specific questions, greetings, and commands. In addition, a pronunciation guide is included.

Product Details

• Paperback: 348 pages
• Publisher: W B Saunders Co; Edition Unstated edition (September 1995)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 0721649556
• ISBN-13: 978-0721649559
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,956,839 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #99 in Books > Libros en español > Ciencia > Referencia

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5.0 out of 5 stars Now I'm a nurse who can speak Spanish!, July 27, 2000

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This review is from: Say It in Spanish: A Guide for Health Care Professionals (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

As a telephone advice nurse, I wanted a resource to help me with medical vocabulary plus Spanish grammar and conversation. This book delivers on both. It is well-organized into chapters that cover various areas of health care, so you can pick and choose quickly what you need to know. Chapters include everything from A - admitting a patient, to Z - well X, for x-ray. There are several illustrations of the body with the Spanish names of parts dissected as specifically as "eyelash," "tibia," and "fibula." (A similar publication, "An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers; Communication and Culture" has illustrations, too, but they are less-descript.) There are chapters on numbers, time of day, food and meals, common expressions, and family-relationship names (eg. aunt, father-in-law). English pronunciation accompanies every word, phrase and sentence. For the more-adventurous, there are grammatical chapters that cover nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs, but thankfully they're not as complex as to discuss "past imperfect," "present subjectives" and the like. There is an informative section on culture, and finally an English-to-Spanish word index. It accomplishes the objectives that I required.