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By: Paula Watkins
Published: 1/18/2008
Life is never dull for a travel nurse. Each assignment brings new places to see, new people to meet and new experiences waiting to happen. As healthcare professionals in a surgical environment, we've pretty much been trained and conditioned to think and act alike. However, verbal communication is another story, especially if you're traveling outside of your native region.
For the past four months, this Arkansas nurse has had the pleasure of working with and making friends with some very nice folks in a Connecticut OR. It seems strange that we're all Americans, yet we sometimes have a hard time understanding the same language. But we've all agreed that there's definitely a difference in not only the way we speak the English language but also in how we understand it.
I didn't think too much about these differences until one very savvy co-worker began acting as an interpreter between me and the surgeons and staff with whom I worked. Affectionately, I'm offering up a short course on the language barriers we've overcome in my time north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
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