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Ethics and Standards Publications and Webinar Catalog

WEBINAR - NES001 Interpreter Advocacy in Healthcare Encounters: A Closer Look

Presenters: Analía C. Lang, BA, CHI-Spanish, Jane Crandall Kontrimas, M.S., CoreCHI™, Maria-Paz Beltran Avery, PhD

Recording Published: November, 2022

Continuing education credits: CCHI 1.5 CEUs, IMIA 0.15 CEUs, RID 0.15 CEPs

Brief description: Recorded webinar featuring highlights from "Interpreter Advocacy in Healthcare Encounters: A Closer Look" paper. With presenters from the NCIHC National Ethics & Standards Committee.

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PUBLICATION - Interpreter Advocacy in Healthcare Encounters: A Closer Look

Authors: Analía C. Lang, BA, CHI-Spanish, Jane Crandall Kontrimas, M.S., CoreCHI™, Maria-Paz Beltran Avery, PhD

Published March, 2021

Continuing education credits are only available through the webinar offered above.

Brief description: Our discussion of advocacy in the interpreted healthcare encounter will draw on both the NCIHC Code of Ethics and the NCIHC Standards of Practice. Understanding the connection between the NCIHC Code of Ethics and the NCIHC Standards of Practice is critical to the professional performance of the healthcare interpreter role.

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PUBLICATION - National Standards of Practice for Interpreters in Healthcare

Authors: Karin Ruschke, MA; Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, MA; Maria-Paz Beltran Avery, Ph.D.; Bruce Downing, Ph.D., Carola E. Green, Linda Haffner

Published September, 2005

Continuing education credits are only available through the webinar offered above.

Brief description: The National Council on Interpreting in Health Care (NCIHC) published the National Code of Ethics for Interpreters in Health Care. The development of the code of ethics followed an extensive period of gathering input and counsel from working interpreters and their colleagues. Through a similar consensus-building process, the NCIHC has now developed a set of standards of practice for interpreters working in health care settings.

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PUBLICATION - National Code of Ethics for Interpreters in Health Care

Authors: Karin Ruschke, MA; Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, MA; Maria-Paz Beltran Avery, Ph.D.; Bruce Downing, Ph.D., Carola E. Green, Linda Haffner

Published July, 2004

Continuing education credits are only available through the webinar offered above.

Brief description: As the profession of health care interpreting in the United States matures and evolves, the importance of creating shared understandings of what is considered high quality and ethically appropriate principles and practices in the field becomes imperative. To this end, the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care identified three steps that needed to take place on a national level in order to standardize the expectations that the health care industry and patients should have of interpreters and to raise the quality of health care interpreting. The first step was to create and build support for a single Code of Ethics that would guide the practice of interpreters working in health care venues.

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