guardias auxiliares

English translation: extra/additional on-call shifts

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Spanish term or phrase:guardias auxiliares
English translation:extra/additional on-call shifts
Entered by: Giovanni Rengifo

22:59 Jun 28, 2017
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)
Spanish term or phrase: guardias auxiliares
This is actually a text about an Argentine artist:

Son varias las historias de sus guardias auxiliares en el Hospital de Clínicas, ese edificio monstruosamente moderno cuyos pasillos interminables están llenos de gente enferma y gente muerta. Pero de las formas que toma la responsabilidad, la que nos ocupa en este texto no tiene tanto que ver con la misericordia y el samaritanismo, sino con la posibilidad de ser responsable a través de la pintura.

Some sort of volunteer work performed at the hospital?
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 19:23
additional on-call shifts
Explanation:
This is my best guess. Like they say, just to get the ball rolling.

Was this person a nurse, a doctor, or something like that before he/she became an artist?
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Giovanni Rengifo
Colombia
Local time: 17:23
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Summary of answers provided
4extra stand-by shifts
neilmac
1 +2additional on-call shifts
Giovanni Rengifo
3shifts as a volunteer
Marie Wilson
3hospital auxiliary guard /s
jude dabo


  

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additional on-call shifts


Explanation:
This is my best guess. Like they say, just to get the ball rolling.

Was this person a nurse, a doctor, or something like that before he/she became an artist?

Giovanni Rengifo
Colombia
Local time: 17:23
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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agree  neilmac
3 hrs

agree  patinba
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shifts as a volunteer


Explanation:
Unless this is talking about an actual health care professional, the mention of " la misericordia y el samaritanismo" makes me think he or she was doing volunteer work at the hospital.

Hospital volunteer - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_volunteer
Hospital volunteers also known as candy stripers work without regular pay in a variety of health ... In the United States, volunteers' services are of considerable importance to individual patients as well as the health care system in general.

Frequently Asked Questions for Sharp Hospital Volunteers - San Diego
https://www.sharp.com/hospitals/memorial/volunteer-faqs.cfm
Sharp Memorial Hospital ... Check out the most common questions for volunteers of Sharp Mary Birch, ... Can I volunteer more than one shift per week? plus

Example sentence(s):
  • Walt Whitman wrote poetry between shifts as a volunteer hospital nurse in Washington, D.C.
  • Roberto came to Cambridge Memorial Hospital to see for himself why his fiancée keeps coming home so happy and upbeat following her shifts as a volunteer at the hospital.
Marie Wilson
Spain
Local time: 23:23
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
extra stand-by shifts


Explanation:
'Guardias' are standy or on-call shifts. 'Auxiliar' would mean extra in this case.
Unless, of course, he actuallly did work as a volunteer, in which case Marie's suggestion would work...

Example sentence(s):
  • She explained that, following a regular 12-hour shift, nurses will be asked to do a stand-by shift....
  • Working shifts, like e.g. day shift, night shift, stand-by shift, long shift or vacations have to be assigned to each employee

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/standby
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 23:23
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hospital auxiliary guard /s


Explanation:
Changing of the Guard | Hartford Hospital
hartfordhospital.org/about-hh/auxiliary/changing-of-the-guardEn caché
Changing of the Guard. March 15, 2017 By Elisabeth de'Ath. Nominated for election at the 2017 Hartford Hospital Auxiliary Annual Meeting, Jennifer Conrad Wedeles ...


jude dabo
Local time: 22:23
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