Speech Language Pathologist Skills Checklist

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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 below to describe your experience/expertise in each area listed below.

Proficiency Scale:

1 = No Experience
2 = Need Training
3 = Able to perform with supervision
4 = Able to perform independently

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 Attach (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:

★★★★

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:

★★★★

Computerized Charting:

Cerner:

★★★★

EPIC:

★★★★

McKesson:

★★★★

Meditech:

★★★★

National Patient Safety Goals:

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):

★★★★

Please list any Additional Skills

Additional training:

Additional equipment: