Demonstrate communicating with a hearing-impaired client/resident/patient.
Demonstration includes
- identifying any assistive devices or strategies that a client/resident/patient uses
- hearing aids
- communication boards
- lip reading
- sign language
- reducing distracting noise
- TV
- radio
- noise in adjacent room
- getting attention of a client/resident/patient before speaking
- speaking clearly and slowly
- maintaining eye contact
- using short, simple words
- using picture cards
- writing, if necessary.
Refer to Unit II in Nurse Aide Curriculum Links to an external site., Virginia Board of Nursing, Virginia Department of Health Professions, 2018.
Process/Skill Questions:
- Why is it important to face a client/resident/patient and speak clearly and slowly?
- Why is it important to be familiar with any assistive devices a client/resident/patient uses?
- What is included in the proper maintenance, use, and storage of hearing aids?