Question

1. You are conducting a head-to-toe assessment on your patient, how would you know that your patient has a hearing problem and what will be your intervention to address this problem?. provide a reference to support the answer

Answer 1

Assessment forms the basis for initiating a patient care.It is generally called as a head to toe assessment

The first assessment being a simple conversation in collection of history where a patient who has hearing problems

• will be hard of hearing and talking loudly
• Trying to lean forward to answer a question
• Head tilted towards the person who is conversing
• Confused while talking or while answering
• A tuning fork test is done to assess for hearing loss
• Audiometry enables the level of hearing
• Otoscope enables to view any deposition of wax,blockade I the pathway of ear canal
• Tympanometry enables to assess the function of ear drum
• The intervention for the patients are either medically (instilling ear drops to soften wax,treat infections, injuries etc.,)
• Hearing aide,coclear implants in generally advice d for individuals who have a permanent hear loss
• In case of children ,they have to be enrolled in early intervention program according to IDEA,Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program
• The assistive devices FM system,Captioning ,Text messages, Teletype cylinder ,portable sound amplifiers are other intervention.