title: Development of bilingual tools to assess functional health patterns.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The theory and process of developing bilingual assessment tools based on Gordon's 11 functional health patterns.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To facilitate assessing the individual, family, and community in a student clinical practicum in a Spanish-speaking country.
  
  
  METHODS
  Multiple family and community health promotion theories; translation theories, Gordon's Manual of Nursing Diagnosis (1982); translation/back-translation involving Ecuadorian faculty and students; student community assessments; faculty and staff workshops in Ecuador.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Bilingual, culturally sensitive health assessment tools facilitate history taking, establish nursing diagnoses and interventions, and promote mutual learning. These outcomes demonstrate potential application to other systems in the international nursing community.
authors.affiliation: Boston College School of Nursing, MA, USA.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Krozy
authors.forename: N C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: McCarthy
mesh_terms: D001900:Boston; D003144:Communication Barriers; D004484:Ecuador; D015438:Health Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D007393:International Educational Exchange; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D016746:Transcultural Nursing; D014175:Translating