Talking With Patients: How Hospitals Use Bilingual Clinicians and Staff to Care for Patients With Language Needs

Presents survey findings on bilingual clinicians, staff, interpreters, and volunteers providing language services; training and assessment; hospital policies; and their impact. Recommends explicit policies, robust assessments, and proactive approaches

A Volatile Semiochemical Released by the Fungus Garden of Leaf-Cutting Ants

Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-10T19:55:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-03-01 Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) The symbiosis between fungi and leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) has aroused the interest of researchers about the mechanism used by ants to select plants. The nutritional needs of the fungus garden, and the absence of potentially deleterious substances from plants, are criteria for selection by foraging workers. This is supported by behavioral experiments using fungicide with baits (citrus pulp) or forage plants highly accepted by leaf-cutting ants. The fungus garden is hypothesized to emit a volatile semiochemical in response to a fungicide, which informs ants that a plant is unsuitable for its growth. The objectives of our study were to identify the volatile compounds released by the fungus garden of leaf-cutting ants in response to a fungicide, as well as to determine the behavioral response of workers to healthy and unhealthy fungus gardens. The results showed no difference in the proportion of volatile compounds released by either healthy or unhealthy fungus gardens. Analysis of the responses of ants to healthy or unhealthy fungus gardens in a dual-choice experiment revealed a strong attraction to the fungus garden, regardless of its health status. We therefore conclude that no volatile semiochemicals are emitted by the fungus garden due to the action of deleterious substances. Univ Estadual Sao Paulo, Dept Protecao Vegetal, Lab Insetos Sociais Praga, UNESP, Botucatu, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Sao Paulo, Fac Ciencias Agron, Lab Cent, UNESP, Botucatu, SP, Brazil Univ Oeste Paulista UNOESTE, Coll Agr Sci, Agron Dept, Lab Agr Entomol, Presidente Prudente, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Sao Paulo, Dept Protecao Vegetal, Lab Insetos Sociais Praga, UNESP, Botucatu, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Sao Paulo, Fac Ciencias Agron, Lab Cent, UNESP, Botucatu, SP, Brazil CNPq: 301718/2013-

It Takes a Village: Resource Sharing and the Historian

Presented at the 2017 Access Services Conference, Georgia Tech Global Learning Center and the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, November 15-17, 2017, Atlanta, Georgia.Access Services Conference Track : Interlibrary LoanChristal Ferrance, Instructional Design Librarian at George Mason UniversityGeorge D. Oberle III, History Librarian at George Mason UniversityLaura Ramos, Resource Sharing Librarian at George Mason UniversityThis poster takes a look at how George Mason University addresses the research needs and ongoing support of patrons with visual impairments

Talking with Patients: How Hospitals Use Bilingual Clinicians and Staff to Care for Patients with Language Needs

Improving access to language services in health care settings has become a focal point for health reform and disparities-focused legislation, in recognition of the increasing linguistic and cultural diversity of individuals across the nation. Bilingual staff and clinicians can serve as enormously valuable resources to hospitals and other health care organizations, offering a critical set of skills to interact with individuals who require care in a language other than English. Bilingual clinicians can serve a vital need for hospitals by providing high-quality health care, improving patient safety, and meeting organizational priorities to provide linguistically and culturally appropriate care for patients. We spoke with human resources directors at 899 hospitals around the country to learn how hospitals are using physicians, nurses, and other staff and clinicians as resources for communicating with patients in languages other than English. The majority of hospitals care for patients with language needs, with 74 percent of hospitals serving patients whose primary language is not English. Of these hospitals, nearly three-quarters reported seeing patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) on a daily or weekly basis

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Health Care: A Chartbook

The goal of this chartbook is to create an easily accessible resource that can help policy makers, teachers, researchers, and practitioners begin to understand disparities in their communities and to formulate solutions. Given the magnitude of the body of disparities research, we do not intend to create an exhaustive report that simply presents existing data. Rather we seek to prompt thinking about why these disparities may exist, and more importantly, what may be done to eliminate these gaps. Our hope is to offer a systematic set of data coupled with a discussion that we hope can educate a broad audience about the challenges and opportunities to improve the health and health care of all Americans

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Health Care: A Chartbook

The goal of this chartbook is to create an easily accessible resource that can help policy makers, teachers, researchers, and practitioners begin to understand disparities in their communities and to formulate solutions. Given the magnitude of the body of disparities research, we do not intend to create an exhaustive report that simply presents existing data. Rather we seek to prompt thinking about why these disparities may exist, and more importantly, what may be done to eliminate these gaps. Our hope is to offer a systematic set of data coupled with a discussion that we hope can educate a broad audience about the challenges and opportunities to improve the health and health care of all Americans