Competency information
Details
Summarise a patient’s history, suggest suitable aural rehabilitation strategies and recommend an initial management plan with a supervisor.
Considerations
- The type of hearing disorders that can be assessed by interview and questionnaire, which may include associated but relevant symptoms of tinnitus and vertigo.
- How to modify and pace assessment to meet individual needs.
- The range of abnormalities and pathologies associated with auditory and vestibular investigations, their likely prognosis and the implications of these for future patient management of patients of all ages.
- How to interpret test results and present these in terminology that can be understood by patients and careers.
- Options and choices for the treatment and management of conditions and their relevance to disorders, including likely outcomes, benefits and limitations.
- The importance of facilitating patient choice in management.
- How to confirm arrangements for referral to other specialists, agencies or support groups.
- The range of support groups available for patients and carers and how to access current information concerning these.
- Ethical issues surrounding the provision of care options, including consent issues.
- The psychosocial implications of hearing and/or balance impairments and related conditions.
- How to assess patients’ needs for advocacy or interpreting support.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 4 | Outcome Apply the fundamental principles of aural rehabilitation. |
| # 5 | Outcome Assist in the assessment and management of routine audiological caseload, in particular adult rehabilitation. |