Response to Jennifer Barajas
Hello Jennifer, I support you in your discussion, especially when you state that when healthcare providers or workers do not speak the same language as their patients, the health outcomes can be negative.
Building on your discussion, hiring culturally competent healthcare workers may be one way of managing the language barrier in healthcare.
For healthcare services to be effective, they must cover all patients from diverse cultural groups (Young & Guo, 2020). In addition, the hiring of culturally competent healthcare workers may prevent the need for hiring interpreters, and this result in cost-saving for healthcare providers.
Healthcare workers do not need to be paid an extra amount for language interpretation.ReferenceYoung, S., & Guo, K. L. (2020). Cultural diversity training:
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