Competency information

Details

Formulate a plan identifying the relevant tests to be performed to aid diagnosis

Considerations

  • Tools, resources and tests available
  • The relevance and clinical significance of each test
  • Local and national protocols and procedures, including contraindications of individual tests
  • Evidence-based practice, including sensitivity and specificity of individual tests
  • The importance of gaining patient consent and local procedures for this
  • Limitations of individual tests
  • Physiological site of testing
  • Appropriateness of order of testing

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 1 Outcome Perform any subjective and objective development and age-appropriate hearing tests within the field of paediatric audiology and rehabilitation
# 2 Outcome Interpret test results and consolidate these in relation to all other relevant information obtained