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CCHI-Core Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest
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Community Interpreting
Ans: A specialization that facilitates access to community resources
Medical Interpreting
Ans: Interpreting for patients, their families, providers to facilitate access to
healthcare
Communicative Autonomy
Ans: The capacity of each party in the encounter to be responsible for and
control their own communication
Which area of interpreting has become more professional
Ans: Medical
Requirements to become certified
Ans: 1. 18 years old 2. HS grad 3. Proof of language proficiency through third
party tester 4.40 hr training course
Certificate v.s. Certification
Ans: Certificate is the 40 hour class, Certification requires the 4 requirements
Certification is provided by which two agencies
Ans: 1. CCHI and NBCMI
What does NBCMI stand for
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Ans: National board of certification for healthcare workers
What does CCHI stand for
Ans: Certification Commission for healthcare interpreters
What are ethics vs standards
Ans: Ethics-what we do Standards-how we do them
Ethics are defined as
Ans: A set of principles that govern the conduct of practitioners of a profession
Standards of practice are defined as
Ans: A set of formal guidelines that practitioners use that offer clear strategies
and course of action to support professional conduct
What are the ethics that make up the code of ethics
Ans: 1. Confidentiality 2. Accuracy 3. Impartiality 4. professional conduct 5.
Transparency 6. intercultural communication 7. advocacy 8. professional
boundaries 9. professional development 10. Direct communication
Do you interpret everything stated?
Ans: yes
What three things should you do if you know the client
Ans: 1. disclose to all parties 2. Offer to withdraw 3. decide if you can be
impartial
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Three steps to the say no module
Ans: 1. gracious 2. offer choices 3. reason why
working language
Ans: any language the interpreter works with
Source language
Ans: language the interpreter interprets from
target language
Ans: language you interpret in to
three stages of the encounter
Ans: 1. pre prep/briefing 2.encounter 3. debriefing
7 steps to the encounter
Ans: 1. Prep 2. brief 3.professional intro 4. interpreting 5. mediating 6.
debriefing 7. analysis
4 interpreting protocols
Ans: 1. positioning 2. professional intro 3. first-person interpreting 4. turn-
taking to manage flow
4 elements of the professional introduction
Ans: 1. confidential 2. all interpreted 3. speak to each other 4. pause for
clarification
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CCHI-Core Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest
Update / Already Graded
Community Interpreting
Ans: A specialization that facilitates access to community resources
Medical Interpreting
Ans: Interpreting for patients, their families, providers to facilitate access to
healthcare
Communicative Autonomy
Ans: The capacity of each party in the encounter to be responsible for and
control their own communication
Which area of interpreting has become more professional
Ans: Medical
Requirements to become certified
Ans: 1. 18 years old 2. HS grad 3. Proof of language proficiency through third
party tester 4.40 hr training course
Certificate v.s. Certification
Ans: Certificate is the 40 hour class, Certification requires the 4 requirements
Certification is provided by which two agencies
Ans: 1. CCHI and NBCMI
What does NBCMI stand for
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Ans: National board of certification for healthcare workers
What does CCHI stand for
Ans: Certification Commission for healthcare interpreters
What are ethics vs standards
Ans: Ethics-what we do Standards-how we do them
Ethics are defined as
Ans: A set of principles that govern the conduct of practitioners of a profession
Standards of practice are defined as
Ans: A set of formal guidelines that practitioners use that offer clear strategies
and course of action to support professional conduct
What are the ethics that make up the code of ethics
Ans: 1. Confidentiality 2. Accuracy 3. Impartiality 4. professional conduct 5.
Transparency 6. intercultural communication 7. advocacy 8. professional
boundaries 9. professional development 10. Direct communication
Do you interpret everything stated?
Ans: yes
What three things should you do if you know the client
Ans: 1. disclose to all parties 2. Offer to withdraw 3. decide if you can be
impartial
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Three steps to the say no module
Ans: 1. gracious 2. offer choices 3. reason why
working language
Ans: any language the interpreter works with
Source language
Ans: language the interpreter interprets from
target language
Ans: language you interpret in to
three stages of the encounter
Ans: 1. pre prep/briefing 2.encounter 3. debriefing
7 steps to the encounter
Ans: 1. Prep 2. brief 3.professional intro 4. interpreting 5. mediating 6.
debriefing 7. analysis
4 interpreting protocols
Ans: 1. positioning 2. professional intro 3. first-person interpreting 4. turn-
taking to manage flow
4 elements of the professional introduction
Ans: 1. confidential 2. all interpreted 3. speak to each other 4. pause for
clarification
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