A New Type of Translation
For UW–Madison School of Nursing alum and professor Dr. Maichou Lor, creating tools to address culturally-appropriate care and improve clinical practice means patients’ symptoms are no longer lost in translation.
For UW–Madison School of Nursing alum and professor Dr. Maichou Lor, creating tools to address culturally-appropriate care and improve clinical practice means patients’ symptoms are no longer lost in translation.
The primary goal of Dr. Lor’s project is to pilot test a web-based communication training intervention to help Hmong bilingual caregivers document their care recipients’ pain information.
School of Nursing staff and alumni are demonstrating why diversity within research is critical to health outcomes.
Dr. Maichou Lor was awarded the Wisconsin Idea Collaboration Grant to support the project named Collaborating with the Hmong Community to Create a Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Hmong edition of the Planning AHEAD Curriculum. The study is funded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, in partnership with the University of …