Lessons Learned From Translators and Interpreters From the Dinka Tribe of Southern Sudan

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 116-121

  Baird, Martha B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dinka; ethnography; interpreters; transcultural health; translators

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH LITERACY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SUDAN; TIME; TRANSCULTURAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUDAN; TIME; TRANSCULTURAL NURSING; TRANSLATING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954481420     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659610395764     Document Type: Article

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