National Standards of Practice for Interpreters in Health Care
Early in 2004 the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care commissioned an international environmental scan of current practices and existing published standards, with the purpose of collecting a representative number of documents about interpreter standards of practice from around the world to assess the similarities and differences between the standards. The reason for performing this scan was the urgent need to create national standards of practice for interpreters in health care. NCIHC used this information together with feedback from focus groups, stakeholders and conferences across the U.S. to draft national standards of practice for interpreters in health care over 2004 and 2005.
In September 2005 the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care, Inc. published a set of guidelines to define what an interpreter is expected to do and the tasks and skills interpreters in health care should be able to perform.
Read “The Interpreter�s World Tour: An Environmental Scan of Standards of Practice for Interpreters” http://www.ncihc.org/NCIHC_PDF/TCE01202005_TheInterpretersWorldTour.pdf
Habalmos Juntos December 2005 - eUpdate
