[Dysphagia] FEES + clinical privileges

[Bartcyn at cs.com (Bartcyn@cs.com)]

We are now offering a wonderful Endoscopy series that will, indeed, prepare SLPs for the challenge, and meet these guidelines.
Go to ProCourseCEUs.com to see the Endoscopy series brochure
Cindy
And thanks Hilda for all you are doing!
"Pressman, Hilda" <pressmah@sjhmc.org> wrote:

>FEES had been ruled to be outside the scope of practice for SLPs in NJ. ?We
>have been working with the licensing committee and they have just published
>regulations for comment. ?These would require the SLP to be certified in
>Basic Life Support, to have completed a 12 hour seminar or workshop in FEES
>which qualified for ASHA CEUs, to observe 10 FEES procedures and Perform 25
>FEES procedures under the supervision of an SLP who has met the requirements
>or a physician experienced in FEES. ?The SLP would only be able to perform
>FEES in a healthcare facility licensed by the Dept. of Health and Senior
>Services and with a physician who received triaing in endoscopy during
>residency to be present. ?
>We will be asking for some clarifications on this.
>Hilda Pressman
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Czapnik, Danielle (RGH) [mailto:Danielle.Czapnik@rgh.sa.gov.au]
>Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 10:58 PM
>To: 'dysphagia@b9.com'
>Subject: [Dysphagia] FEES + clinical privileges
>
>
>Hello to you all,
>
>Our facility is currently working on establishing a training protocol to
>enable speech pathologists to be granted clinical privileges to perform
>nasendoscopy to assess swallowing. We are aware of Susan Langmore's
>recommendations and were 
>wondering what other facilities are doing/have done? 
>
>I would be most grateful for your comments as we want to get this right!
>
>Many thanks, 
>Danielle Czapnik
>Senior Speech Pathologist
>Repatriation General Hospital
>South Australia
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