Speech Language Pathologist

Instructions: This checklist is meant to serve as a general guideline for our client facilities as to the level of your skills within your nursing specialty. Please use the scale

(PROFICIENCY)
1 = No Experience
2 = Need Training
3 = Able to perform with supervision
4 = Able to perform independently
(FREQUENCY)
1 = Never performed observed only
2 = Less than 6 times per year
3 = 1-2 times per month
4 = Daily or Weekly
PROFICIENCY / FREQUENCY
PROFICIENCY
FREQUENCY
Skill Level
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
Work Settings
Acute care
Children’s hospital
Daily treatment center
Home health care
Inpatient acute rehab
Neonatal intensive care
Outpatient/outpatient community re-entry
Pediatrics
Psychiatric hospital
Private practice
School setting
Early intervention
Skilled nursing facility
Patient Populations
Geriatrics
Hearing impaired
Learning disabilities
Pediatrics/school age
Progressive neurologic disease
Trachs/ventilators
Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
Traumatic brain injury
Voice/laryngectomy
Assessment Tools
Boston assessment of severe aphasia
Boston diagnostic aphasia examination
Minnesota test for differential diagnosis of aphasia
Informal testing
Porch index of communicative abilities
Reading comprehension battery for aphasia
Ross information processing assessment-geriatric
Western aphasia battery
Bedside swallow evaluation
Blue dye test
Cervical auscultation
Fiber endoscopic evaluation study
Modified barium swallow study
Rehab Institute of Chicago evaluation of communication
Augmentative devices
Pure tone screening
Types of Disorders
Aphasia
Apraxia
Autism
Cleft palate
CVA/stroke
Fluency
Dementia/alzheimers
Dysarthria
Dysphagia
Hearing loss
Learning disabilities
Traumatic brain injury
Treatment
Augmentative devices
Behavior modification
Cognitive training
Community re-entry
Computer
Co-treatment
Treatment - cont.
Group
Individual
Safety awareness
Total communication
Vital stimulation
Dysphagia across the age-spectrum
Regulations
FIMS
Medi-Cal
Medicare
Omnibus budget reconciliation
RUG levels
General Skills
Patient/family teaching
Patients in isolation
Patients in restraints
Initial evaluation
Lift/transfer devices
Specialty beds
End of life care/palliative care
Cerner
EPIC
McKesson
Meditech
Accurate patient identification
Effective communication
Pain assessment & management
Infection control
Universal precautions
Care of patients in isolation
Minimize risk of falls
Prevention of pressure ulcers
Age Specific Competencies
Infant (birth to 1 year)
Toddler (ages 1-3 years)
Preschooler (ages 3-5 years)
Childhood (ages 6-12 years)
Adolescents (ages 12-21 years)
Young Adults (ages 21-39 years)
Adults (ages 40-64 years)
Older Adults (ages 65-79 years)
Elderly (ages 80+ years)