157: Practicing at the Top of Your Scope in the SNF Setting and Dignifying Long-Term Care with Hannah Allen, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) often have a negative stereotype and are considered a less prestigious setting of the Med SLP continuum of care. This artificial hierarchy of Med SLP practice limits our potential to provide high quality care in these settings if we feed into stereotypes. Just like any other Med SLP setting, there are challenges and great opportunities with plenty of room to practice at the top of your scope and provide high quality and evidenced based SLP intervention in a SNF.
Key Takeaway:
Working in a SNF and striving to practice at the top of our scope allows us to dignify long-term care, create a higher quality of life for residents, and defy dated stereotypes and hierarchies of Med SLP practice.
Resources
https://buildingtherapyleaders.com/
Contact Hannah directly: hannahallen03@gmail.com
Thanks for these great resources, hannah!
Hannah Allen, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Guest Speaker Bio:
Hannah Allen received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Utah. She was trained initially in acute care and has since broadened her areas of experience and expertise to the outpatient, subacute, and skilled nursing settings. She has found her home in Subacute and Skilled Nursing Care and currently works as a Director of Rehabilitation at Heritage Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation, a large SNF in Northern Utah. She has dedicated her career to ensuring evidenced-based and high quality dysphagia evaluation and therapy to all residents in this setting in order to provide the best possible quality of life for residents. She has also devoted herself to partnering with local universities to provide quality clinical education to graduate students and clinical fellows. Along with her mentor, she led the successful initiative to develop an in-house FEES program in her building and other affiliated buildings, which has been a heavily utilized and invaluable tool in providing the best possible dysphagia care. In June she obtained her BCS-S certification, which was all completed and made possible through programs and initiatives while working in the SNF setting.
Leigh Ann Porter, MA, CCC-SLP
Host Bio:
Leigh Ann Porter is a medical SLP in San Jose, California. Building on a passion for education and implementing best practice approaches, Leigh Ann created the Speech Uncensored Podcast to connect medical SLPs with meaningful resources, emerging research, and practical tools. Leigh Ann’s goal is to empower and connect SLPs to enhance our profession and accelerate the research to practice pipeline. One of her passions is learning and sharing simple and impactful therapy techniques. In addition to nerding out on medical speech pathology, Leigh Ann loves hiking at national parks, exploring waterways on her stand up paddle board, and enjoying a delicious meal with friends and family.
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