The nurse is assigned to care for a patient who is a non-native English speaker.What is the best way to communicate with the patient and family to provide updates and explain procedures?
A) Conduct a Google search on the computer to identify resources for the patient and family in their native language.Print these for their use.
B) Contact the hospital's interpreter service for someone to translate.
C) Get in touch with one of the residents who you know is fluent in the native language and ask him if he can come up to the unit.
D) Use the patient's 8-year-old child who is fluent in both English and the native language to translate for you.
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