Five years ago I would have said you were crazy to pull out a computer with my geriatric population. Today I say, KEEP IT CHARGED! I started using my iPad during speech therapy over the last couple of years to…
Category:SNF Speech Therapy
I take my 8 year old daughter to the nursing home with me when I work PRN on the weekends. It’s our routine. She wants to be with me. I want her to be with me, but even more importantly…
Sometimes all you have is 23 min to see a patient. That patient is more than likely going to be in bed if you are working PRN at a SNF on the weekend. In this world of 95% productivity standards,…
As a SLP, I work PRN providing speech therapy for a company that contracts into nursing homes/SNFs. Our patient caseload is heavily weighted for cognitive therapy specifically memory, problem solving, sequencing, and attention. These qualities are ALL necessary for a…
We all have our favorite, go-to items whether at home or at work. These things are familiar and usually are something you have used a lot. Something that is reliable and flexible. I have some therapy materials that are that…
Today at work we continued the fall activities and crafts by flipping through magazines and cutting out pictures and words that are reminisce of fall. The patients then arranged the clippings on a piece of construction paper in a collage…
Jenna over at Speech Room News and Jenn over at Crazy Speech World invited all of their followers to play a little #InstaSLP game on instagram over the next two weeks. This prompted me to take more pictures than usual in…