Speech Therapy
The acronym that refers to a process that uses an X-ray to help identify problems with swallowing.
What is a MBSS?
The term that includes abilities to perform care tasks including bathing or showering, dressing, getting in and out of bed or a chair, walking, using the toilet, and eating.
What is Activities of Daily Living or ADLs?
60-100 is the general range for this.
What is heart rate?
Required at admission and discharge, these are submitted for every patient.
What are Quality Indicators?
A common brace recommended for foot drop.
What is an AFO?
The thickened liquid attempted if the Pt coughs with thin liquids.
What is Nectar thick liquids?
This is the device that allows a Pt to put on a sock with modified independence.
What is a sock aid?
Tool or scale that nursing uses to determine fall risk.
What is the Morse fall score?
The acronym IRF-PAI stands for this.
Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Patient Assessment Instrument.
A device with a large base that allows for a Pt to walk using one hand for support.
What is a pyramid cane or Hemi walker?
A device that allows voice/speech production, improves swallow and secretion management for Pts with a tracheostomy.
What is a PMV or Passé Muir Valve or speaking valve?
Tools that are specifically designed to improve or maintain someone’s functional participation in things like grooming, bathing, eating, or writing.
What are adaptive equipment?
A simple device that aids in lung expansion to prevent pneumonia.
What is a incentive spirometer?
This is required to be performed by the eighth day of the patients stay.
What is team conference.
The movement that brings a limb into or toward a straight condition.
What is extension?
A swallowing technique that is commonly recommended by non-SLP, but is not typically appropriate for every patient.
What is a chin tuck?
Ability to use hands/fingers to manipulate small objects precisely.
What is fine motor coordination?
Amount of time a nurse has to initiate a care plan after an admission.
What is 24 hours?
The total minimum number of therapy minutes a patient must have over 5 out of 7 days.
What is 900
The acronym that represents how much weight to put on that affected extremity. The percentage of weight is determined by the orthopedic surgeon.
What is a PWB?
The screening instrument for cognitive function that McLaren SLPs use on acute care.
What is the SLUMs?
The assessment used in acute care to measure basic mobility, daily activity, and applied cognition in addition to assistance and limitations in activities of daily living.
What is the AM-PAC?
This oral blood thinner medication requires regular blood work monitoring.
What is Coumadin?
The topic that needs to be addressed during team conference in addition to progress.
What are barriers to discharge and how to address them as a team?
A timed screening test that measures functional mobility, balance, and fall risk.
What is TUG?