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- Title
Are new graduate speech and language therapists ready to work with swallowing disorders?
- Authors
Smith, Trudy Olwen; Bessell, Nicola; Scholten, Ingrid
- Abstract
Irish speech-language pathology (SLP) graduates were recently required to have dysphagia competency. Five experienced dysphagia clinicians from a variety of settings were interviewed using semi-structured interviews regarding their expectations of new graduates and the best ways to prepare them for practice. Significant issues identified by the clinicians included the perceived fear associated with dysphagia management, new graduate competency, requisite personal qualities, taking a holistic client view, assessment of competence, and the need for support systems in the workplace. Continued collaboration between universities, professional bodies and working environments could facilitate successful fostering of professional confidence and optimum client care.
- Subjects
IRELAND; CLINICAL competence; DEGLUTITION disorders; FEAR; HOLISTIC medicine; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; PROFESSIONS; SPEECH therapists; WORK environment; TEAMS in the workplace; DISEASE management; QUALITATIVE research; GRADUATES; THEMATIC analysis; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology, 2013, Vol 15, Issue 2, p80
- ISSN
2200-0259
- Publication type
Article