Training activity: 5

Details

Modify hearing assessment and management plans for patients with related healthcare needs or diagnoses, including:

• Dual sensory impairment
• Physical disabilities/difficulties
• Mental health conditions

Type

Developmental training activity (DTA)

Evidence requirements

Evidence the activity has been undertaken by the trainee​.

Reflection on the activity at one or more time points after the event including learning from the activity and/or areas of the trainees practice for development.

An action plan to implement learning and/or to address skills or knowledge gaps identified.

Considerations

• Principles of patient-centred care
• Patient history
• Effective communication and counselling
• Use of interpreters
• NHS Accessible Information Standard
• Holistic patient care and patient experience
• Referral pathways
• Risk assessment and mitigation plans.
• Modifications to the clinical environment, case history, assessment and management techniques
• Setting of appropriate expectation levels
• Environmental modifications to aid discrimination
• Shared decision making
• Communication barriers
• Scope of practice
• Onward referrals
• Ongoing audiology support and alternative methods of support for the patient
• Local and national guidelines, and international best practice

Relevant learning outcomes

#	Outcome
# 1	Outcome Use a range of tests to safely assess the extent and nature of auditory problems in adults, including those with complex aetiologies, complex audiological configurations and comorbidities.
# 2	Outcome Apply shared decision-making to develop an individualised management plan and counselling for adults with hearing loss and other auditory difficulties, taking into account differing cultural and social attitudes to hearing care.
# 3	Outcome Evaluate individual patient outcomes and safely manage a range of routine and complex hearing losses.
# 4	Outcome Practice within their own personal and professional scope, identifying where onward referral is appropriate.