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

Esperanza Villanueva Joyce EdD CNS RN (Author), Maria Elena Villanueva MD (Author), Esperanza Villanueva Joyce (Author), Maria Elena Villanueva (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0721686133 | ISBN-13: 978-0721686134 | Publication Date: January 15, 2000 | Edition: 2

Helps users communicate with Spanish-speaking patients! Designed for use in busy inpatient, outpatient, and emergency settings, featuring confidence building pronunciation guides. This edition offers seven new chapters and a free 90-minute audiotape.

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About the Author

Esperanza Villanueva Joyce, EdD, CNS, RN, Professor, Texas A & M University - Corpus Christi, School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX; and Maria Elena Villanueva de Gonzalez, MD, Mexico, DF --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 425 pages
• Publisher: Saunders; 2 edition (January 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0721686133
• ISBN-13: 978-0721686134
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,010,222 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great aid for the Health Care Professionals, August 12, 2005

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Michael Smith "MRSMITH" (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Say It in Spanish -- A Guide for Health Care Professionals (Paperback)

This book was an immediate help to be able to begin the vitals and check in process. It is not a know all/do all, but it does help a lot.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I think they are reading the book as they go (on the CD), April 1, 2004

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Andrew Mackie "Drew" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Say It in Spanish -- A Guide for Health Care Professionals (Paperback)

Great idea, a bit sloppy in execution (you can hear them turning pages as they go through the book, editting is choppy, sounds like a cassette (inherent hiss) but is on CD.

In spite of these, so far it seems to me the content is good, and the "rough edges" on the CD are easily overlooked. I'm slowly learning Spanish, and I'm sure this will help me with my health care related vocabulary.

Botton line: So so quality, but content is there. Would have expected a more polished product from such a large publishing firm.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Order and quality a bit questionable..., May 29, 2001

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"sheila_d" (Hollywood, FL United States) - See all my reviews

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

I have spent more time listening to the audio tape and given that I do so in my car w/o the book to accompany it, I found the order of the tape to be most confusing. As a fairly good Spanish speaker already, it was confusing to have the section go from "basic" Spanish such as numbers or colors to rather detailed instructions for performing a physical inquiry or exam back to "basic" items. There seemed to be no logical order (again, not using the book in conjunction) to the sequence of the tape. Additionally, I found the quality of the tape lacking where the words were inaudible as if recorded in a tunnel. I was hoping for a clear pronunciation of many of the medical terms which did not exist.

I cannot comment on the book as I have not yet "tackled" this based on my experience with the tape.

All in all, the words and phrases are present and will help if you are brave enough and have the time to invest in listening and reading start to finish.