Product Description

Spanish for Nurses can help you communicate clearly in most types of medical situations, from basic greetings to more complex phrases. Become comfortable taking patient histories, describing medical tests and explaining diagnoses with this guide to medical terms in Spanish.

Learn dialogues from greetings to the diagnostic:

Nurse

Good morning. What brings you to the office today?

Buenos días. ¿A qué viene a la oficina hoy?

('bweh-nohs 'dee-ahs / ah keh bee-'eh-neh ah lah oh-fee-'see-nah 'oh-ee)

Patient

I’m here to see the doctor. I have a stomachache.

Vengo a ver al doctor. Me duele el estómago.

 (behn-goh ah behr ahl dohk-'tohr / meh doo-'eh-leh ehl ehs-'toh-mah-goh)

Nurse

Describe your pain: Acute?  Comes and goes?

Describa su dolor: ¿Agudo?  ¿Va y viene?

(dehs-'kree-bah soo doh-'lohr / ah-'goo-doh / bah ee bee-'eh-neh)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #729527 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781427799760
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Rudy Valenzuela, RN, MSN, FNP-C, is immediate past-president of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. He has received the National Hispanic Health Leadership Award from the National Hispanic Medical Association. He works as a family nurse practitioner at the JWCH Clinic at the Weingart Center in Los Angeles, California.

Customer Reviews

To the point, pocket sized, and unique features
I came across this book today at Borders while looking for a text on spanish. I've previously read/listened to cd's from Rio's "Spanish for Healthcare providers". For the best bang for the buck, the Rios books clearly outshines this one. Gives you lots of info, comes in a package w/ 3 audio cd's, has lots of vocab, has dialogue, and much better for the newbie. That said, once you've read the Rios book, I'd recommend getting this one to carry around and as a quick review.

Pro's:
-Only book I've seen to has a succinct section on ROS. I.e. If someone has pain, it clearly talks about the PRQST features.
-The amount of words in the H&P and ROS sections are pretty manageable so that after reading it for a few days (if you've previously read the Rios book or has some prior spanish experience), you'd know the basics of what to ask a patient, and not try to learn, and then forget, extraaneous words/phrases as is the case w/ the rios book.

Con's
-The Cardiac ROS is weak. For chest pain, it should talk more about Typical (Pressure like senseation made worse by activity, relieved by rest associated w/ nausea, vomiting, and diaphoresis) vs Atypical Chest pain.
-Some of the translations are quite literal, like cardiac enzymes.
-To expand market share, they should change the title and make it "Spanish for Clinicians" or something like that. This book is also useful if you're a med student, doctor PA, etc. They should also provide a CD.
-$14.95 list price is too high...it should be $9.95.

5/31 update:
After further review, I'd rate this product 3 stars.

Spanish for Nurses
The layout of the book was fine however, needed translations for post-partum and newborn care and this book was not helpful.