Healthcare Systems for Sign Language Interpreters

Enrollment is now open!

 

Description: Healthcare systems can be hard to access and navigate for patients, family members, and advocates. This 20 hour module provides sign language interpreters the foundational understanding of healthcare systems. It will cover the additional barriers Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing individuals experience and how those impact health outcomes. Through a systems approach interpreters can facilitate the connection between Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing individuals and healthcare systems.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Identify rules, laws, and regulations that guide an interpreter’s work in healthcare settings.
  • Express how an understanding of healthcare processes and discourse will benefit their interpreting in these settings.
  • Analyze how different cultural perspectives and life experiences may affect a patient’s perspective of the healthcare system.

Time commitment

This module will require about 20 hours of work. There are no set meeting times. All work must be completed by 11:59pm on April 30.

Course Outline:

  • Resources and Support
  • Pre-Assessment
  • Systems Knowledge
  • Navigating Healthcare Settings
  • Scope of Practice: Becoming a Specialist
  • Teaming
  • Post-Assessment

Technology requirements

Modules are offered through Canvas online learning management system.

  • You must have high-speed internet access and a tablet or computer that supports:
  • Ability to work online and type or video record discussion posts.
  • Ability to record videos.
  • Ability to upload videos to YouTube for sharing with others in Canvas.
  • Ability to access streamed video content.

Enroll

There is no cost to access this offering

Enroll to Learn! Join code if prompted: FNPLDA

Webshops are offered on demand once opened. Enrollment will remain open until April 30.

Please note: This module requires 20 hours of work and must be completed by April 30.

All our self-directed tracks are open enrollment which means it is not limited to a specific number of participants.

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CEUs

To be eligible for CEUs you must complete the pre-assessment, watch all the videos, complete self-reflection activities and quizzes, and complete the post-assessment by 11:59pm on April 30.

St. Catherine University is a RID-approved CMP sponsor. This webshop is approved for 2.0 professional studies and PPO CEUs.

CEUs will be posted by May 16, 2025.

FAQs

  • How are the CEUs processed?

    The CATIE Center processes your CEUs to RID. When you fill out the CEU/Certificate request form after completing a post-assessment at the end of the course, you will get a copy of your responses. Receiving the copy of your responses via email confirms your request went through. This request form ensures you will get your CEUs as well as a certificate. Note that we state the date when CEUs will be processed on the CEU/Certificate request receipt. If you notice an error, please email catiecenter@stkate.edu to inform us of an incorrect RID member identification number and provide the correct one.

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Healthcare Systems for Sign Language Interpreters

Project: US Department of Education RSA

St. Catherine University’s CATIE Center Project Level Up is funded by the US Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration, Award #H160D210004.

The project contents; however, do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. (Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1221e-3 and 3474).

Skills: Medical

Type: Module