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    Default Help translating a "Spiritual Care Brochure" for a hospital

    Please let me know if I have translated the following correctly:
    Behavioral Health Services - Servicios de Salud Conductual
    Healthcare - Asistencia Sanitaria or Cuidado de Salud
    Contacting a Chaplain - Contactar con un Capellan
    Healthcare Advance Directives - Directivas de Sanidad Anticipada
    Worship - Culto or Devocion or adoracion
    Special worship - Culto espacial
    Provide counseling for patients and families - Proporciona orientacion para pacientes y familias
    consult ethics team as appropriate - consultas eticas segun se necesiten

    Any help is appriciated as this is a very long document and these are the phrases I am stuck on.
    Thanks!
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    Contacting a Chaplain - Contactar a un Capellan
    Worship - Culto
    Special worship - Culto especial
    Provide counseling for patients and families - Proporcionar [proveer] orientación a [el] pacientes y [su] familias [familiares]
    consult ethics team as appropriate - consultar al equipo de ética según corresponda

    I am still checking this one: Healthcare Advance Directives - Directivas de Sanidad Anticipada, but for starters it should be directrices [normas] instead of directivas.
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    Servicios de salud del comportamiento
    Atención a la salud
    Ponerse en contacto con un sacerdote o capellán
    Directrices anticipadas respecto a la atención a la salud
    Culto o adoración
    Culto especial
    Proporcionar orientación y apoyo a los pacientes y sus familias
    Consultar al grupo de ética, cuando se considere apropiado

    Aquiles

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    Directrices anticipadas respecto a la atención a la salud
    Aquiles, de dónde sacaste esto? No se entiende bien en español. Lo he estado buscando y lo que pusiste no parece concordar con lo que significa Healthcare Advance Directives pues es un término que involucra una situación de salud específica y no tan general como lo sugiere tu traducción.

    a la atención a la salud...de la salud (esos dos a la no quedan bien).

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    Healthcare Advance Directives - Directivas avanzadas para el cuidado de la salud. (http://www.sfh-tulsa.com/applforms/965-006.pdf)
    Worship - Culto de adoración.
    Special worship - Culto de adoración especial.

    Espero poder ayudar. Saludos

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    Nico, gracias por el enlace.
    Es evidente que es una traducción literal del inglés al español, sin respetar que en español no se dice directivas sino directrices, ni avanzadas sino anticipadas.
    Esto sucede una y otra vez en las traducciones al español que se hacen en los EEUU. Creo que no hay nada que podamos hacer al respecto.
    Tampoco decimos en español culto de adoración sino religión o –en última instancia– culto.
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    Muchisimas gracias a todos!

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