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100
As an SLP, you should begin with this when seeing a client in subacute care.
What is a case history?
100
Audiological services SLPs may be required to provide in a long term care facility.
What is hearing aid & battery maintenance, hearing screenings, fitting checks, etc?
100
An arch enemy of the hearing aid, also a hit broadway musical.
What is hairspray?
100
Facilities that make up the largest integrated healthcare systems and are the largest employers of audiologists in the US.
What is VA hospital?
100
Any two medical, audiological, or mental health concerns you might have upon obtaining Elizabeth's case history report.
What is sensorineural hearing loss due to noise exposure, presbycusis, diabetes, or depression?
200
Care from an SLP cannot be provided to patients without this.
What is orders from the primary care physician?
200
This is the primary and most direct method of educating nursing home staff to effectively communicate with deaf and hard of hearing patients.
What is in-service training?
200
This is the _________ sign for deafness, also a resort in the sunshine state.
What is universal?
200
The five stages of grief (in order).
What is DABDA (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance).
200
Besides an audiometric screening, name one other tool you could use to gather audiological information.
What are questionnaires or behavioral observation checklists?
300
In the United States, acute healthcare facilities provide care to their patients based on this.
What is the medical model of service delivery?
300
An affordable, alternative hearing device for terminally ill patients.
What is a "Pocket Talker"?
300
One of the most common medical diagnoses in acute care, also a term for overspending.
What is hemorrhage?
300
An assessment and screening tool required to be administered to each new patient in a federally funded nursing home.
What is Minimum Data Set (MDS)?
300
Name something that may be included in treatment/aural rehabilitation for Elizabeth.
What is individual/family counseling, group session, self-advocating, visual cues, or repair strategies?
400
This is the person responsible for providing audiological services to a patient if there is no full or part time audiologist on staff at a hospital.
What is the consulting audiologist or the managing audiologist?
400
If a long term care facility does not offer audiological services, this person is responsible to find services for the patient.
What is the patient or the patient's family?
400
The required distance that the clinician stands behind the client in the Whispered Voice Test, also one third of a fathom.
What is two feet?
400
The HHIE-S is used to measure the probability of this.
What is a hearing impairment?
400
Two issues that could be included in designing a hearing aid care plan for Elizabeth.
What is the patient's view of amplification, hearing aid manipulation and maintenance, batteries, cerumen management, consideration of other devices, or follow-up plans?
500
A formal, interprofessional meeting where the SLP can advocate for a patient who is deaf or hard of hearing.
What is in-service training, grand rounds, or patient review panels?
500
Two topics you might address while facilitating a therapy group within a nursing home facility for patients who are hard of hearing.
What is self-advocacy, hearing aid care, listening strategies (with and without hearing aids), understanding nature of hearing loss, including family members, general realistic goals and expectations, etc?
500
A volume containing several novels, also the first word in the title of a 1987 budget reconciliation act.
What is omnibus?
500
A community resource group that provides assistance and resources to people with a hearing loss, formally known as the Self Help for the Hard of Hearing (SHHH).
What is HLAA (Hearing Loss Association of America)?
500
This is the cost Elizabeth would pay for her hearing aids through the VA.
What is $0?