Dysphagia Care Plan, Education, and Best Practices for Your Staff

Dysphagia Care Plan, Education, and Best Practices for Your Staff is organized by HomeCEU. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 4 Contact hours.

Course Description:
Staff Education and in-services on feeding, thickening liquids, strategies and precautions are a necessary part of our job as speech pathologists or occupational therapists. If we don’t do our job, the lack of staff education and knowledge may result in a choking or aspiration event or worse.

Studies often show staff education component is either non-existent or very general. This seminar will identify specific points that should be covered in in-services including the rationale behind modified diets and thickened liquids, importance of thickening liquids – how to thicken and why various liquids are different. .

Strategies will be discussed that are often identified as important to follow during meals and the rationale behind the strategies/precautions. Numerous adaptive cups/straws will be reviewed.

Course Goals:
This course is intended to instruct the professional on having a better understanding of diet levels, precautions/strategies and appropriate adaptive equipment to assist in safer self-feeding or assisted feeding.

Course Objectives:
• List two reasons for recommending texture modified foods.
• Identify the New Dining Practice Standards.
• Recognize the different levels on the IDDSI.
• Identify appropriate adaptive equipment for patients based on their specific needs.