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CCHI’s Job Task Analysis provides the overarching framework – the test blueprint – for CCHI’s certification examination. The test blueprint below reflects the intent of those knowledge, skills, and abilities defined through the JTA process as being important for competent performance of the job of healthcare interpreters and how those KSAs should be grouped and weighted to produce a valid and reliable examination.

Associate Healthcare Interpreter™ examination – Managing Healthcare Interpreter Functions Percent of Test

Manage an Interpreting Encounter                                                     30% - 35%

• Manage the healthcare encounter
• Maintain ethical standards in the encounter
• Establish ground rules for the healthcare encounter with all participants
• Explain rules of confidentiality to the patient
• Introduce yourself to the patient according to protocols
• Position yourself relative to other participants to manage room dynamics
  and support communication

  
Understand Healthcare Terminology                                                   22% - 25%

Interact with Other Healthcare Professionals                                   20% - 24%

• Advocate for the patient (e.g., take action on behalf of the patient that
  goes beyond communication)
• Assist patients in navigating the healthcare system (i.e., structure,
  procedures, protocols, regulations)
• Debrief with other interpreters or clinicians
• Instruct healthcare providers in how to work with interpreters and
  patients with limited English proficiency
• Participate in community outreach efforts
• Interpret during patient check-out process (e.g., assisting with
  prescriptions, appointments, financial)
• Determine interpreting needs of inpatients

Prepare for an Interpreting Encounter                                                 16% - 20%

• Determine interpreting mode to be used
• Confirm dialect or regional language issues
• Assess need for personal protective gear and/or universal precautions
• Determine your ability to interpret a healthcare encounter
  (i.e., an interpreting session)

Demonstrate Cultural Responsiveness                                                 3% - 6%

• Perform cultural brokering (e.g., determine, convey and mediate
  patient's cultural values)

Certified Healthcare Interpreter™ examination – Interpreting in a Healthcare Setting

Interpret Consecutively                                                                        75% - 80%

Interpret Simultaneously                                                                      10% - 15%

Sight Translate/Translate Healthcare Documents                               10% - 15%

• Sight Translate Healthcare Documents
• Written Translation of Healthcare Documents

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