Is technology helping or hindering when it comes to overcoming communication barriers in health care?

I personally feel that technology is helping when it comes to overcoming barriers in health care. When a person is admitted to the hospital and they speak a different language, it is hard for the nurses and/or health professionals to communicate with the patient. The use of technology is allowing health professionals and patients to communicate easier by computer translations. This form of technology translates one language to another in moments. This way of communication is easier, and cheaper than having a translator come into the hospital to translate from the patient to the health professional and back. This technology is a very simple and a fast way of communicating with patients who speak different languages.

First Blog

Hello fellow nursing instructors and students, my name is Jade and I am currently a first year nursing student at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Being at UOIT has been a big change from high school, and it seems that time flies by so quickly. Before my Info and Com Tech Class, I had never heard of blogging before. It is interesting to see other blogs, learning new things, and finding people who have the same interests. I look forward to making new blog posts, reading your comments, and sharing new information with you about my first year in the nursing program.