A competency based on the premise of respect for individuals and cultural differences, and an implementation of a trust-promoting method of inquiry. A specific set of social, educational, religious and professional behaviors, practices and values that individuals learn and adhere to while participating in or out of groups they usually interact with. A communication event in which the services of an interpreter are required. A person who receives and relays requests for interpreter services. The act of receiving a message in one language and sending exactly the same message in another language through a verbal exchange.
Interpretation also includes body language messages.
The rendering, in writing, of a written text from one language to another. An encounter that occurs in a health care setting between a patient and a provider who do not share the same language and a bilingual medical interpreter who speaks both, the patient's and the provider's language.