18th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 3-5, 2019 • Chicago, IL
Utilizing Regional Consultants and Parent Liaisons for Training Hospital Personnel Performing Newborn Hearing Screenings
Although there are federal NBHS standards and guidelines for identification and intervention such as 1-3-6, there are no standards or guidelines for education and training of those performing NBHS on infants. State to state, each EHDI program varies as to their policies and requirements for the universal NBHS. Within the state, each hospital systems’ policies and procedures for NBHS is even more variable.
This research focused on improving training outcomes for nurses, technicians, and volunteers who perform bedside newborn hearing screenings (A-ABR) in a mother-baby nursery. This poster highlights how EHDI audiology regional consultants and parent liaisons can be incorporated during in-service trainings which can affect hospital protocols, policies, troubleshooting, and counseling during the newborn hearing screening process. In-service trainings were completed at 8 hospital sites in the State of Michigan. Our study methods included three parts: (1) a pre-training survey, (2) the in-service training, and (3) a post-training survey. The overall objective was to determine and assess the current effectiveness of training provided to newborn hearing screeners in the hospital system. As well as, to determine if there is an increase in overall understanding and preparedness to perform newborn screenings after the in-service training.
This poster is complementary to proposed session - The Missing Link: Utilizing Parent Stories to Impact Quality Measures in Michigan’s EHDI 1/3/6 Program.
- Attendees will learn how to create and incorporate an in-service training program for a hospital based NBHS program.
- Attendees will understand ways to implement, track, and monitor knowledge and training outcomes for hospital employees who perform NBHS.
- Attendees will learn about the challenges of this program roll-out and how it can be changed or improved in the future.
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Presenter: Michelle Garcia
Michelle Garcia is a licensed audiologist. She obtained her doctorate of audiology from Salus University and has experience as a clinical audiologist and expertise in newborn hearing screening as follow-up consultant for the Michigan EHDI program. Dr. Garcia has coordinated meetings for hearing screening, presented at conferences and in-service trainings, developed program materials and publications, and coordinated follow up efforts with partner organizations and agencies.
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Samantha Ramirez is a 4th year Au.D. student at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI and is anticipating graduation in May 2019. Samantha's interest in the EHDI program began when she became a volunteer hearing screener at Beaumont Health in Royal Oak, MI as a 1st year student. Samantha helped implement new training processes at Beaumont and saw improvements in screening outcomes and return for follow-up for the well-baby population. She used her leadership with the volunteer program as a catalyst for her Au.D. research project which she presents to the EHDI 2019 Conference today. She is currently completing her clinical externship at Kaiser Permanente in Redwood City, CA.
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Megan is a 4th year Audiology Extern at Ascent Audiology in Arizona. When she is not seeing patients and helping in the clinics shes learning the ins and outs of owning and running a successful private practice from her boss and mentor.
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Dr. Cacace is Professor of Audiology, in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at Wayne State University. Prior to this position at Wayne State University, he was full time tenured faculty at Albany Medical College, Albany, NY within the Department of Surgery. At different points in his career, he headed the Audiology Department and Hearing Rehabilitation Center at Albany Medical Center Hospital and was also Director of Oto-neurological Research within the Division of Otolaryngology, Albany Medical College. He then transitioned to the Department of Neurology, and was faculty with the Neurosciences Institute and the Center for Neuroscience Research.
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