Interprofessional Management : Hearing
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Interprofessional Management
Nursing Assessment
- Health Promotion
- Ototoxic substances—drugs
- Ototoxic substances—industrial chemicals
- Toluene, carbon disulfide, mercury
- Monitoring is important
- Discontinuing drug may be indicated
- Assistive devices and techniques
- Hearing aids
- Fit by a specialist
- Provide amplification, sound lateralization, speech discrimination
- Require a motivated, capable user for optimum success
- Speech reading
- Lip reading
- Visual cues associated with speech facilitates understanding for 40% of
spoken words
- Sign language
- For those with profound impairment
- Sign language is not universal
- American sign language (ASL) is used in the United States and in English-speaking areas of Canada
- Amplification devices
- Alerting systems
- Texting systems
- Closed caption
- Specially trained dogs
- Hearing aids
- Implantable hearing device or aid
- Fully implantable
- Nothing externally visible
- Partially implantable
- Have an external component worn behind or in the ear
- Fully implantable
- Cochlear implant
- For severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss in one or both ears
- Ideal candidates became deaf after acquiring speech and language
- Provides sound
- Improves lip-reading ability
- Enables monitoring own speech volume
- Decreases feelings of isolation
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