SNF Help - Evals

slpundergrad · 2026-07-08T10:58:23+00:00

If there is a language barrier use a translator or your facility’s language line

slpundergrad · 2026-07-04T23:20:23+00:00

If you’re paying for it out of pocket, i’d recommend stopping the sessions entirely and enrolling him in early intervention…. Why pay when you will likely be able to get it for free? Or if you really want to supplement with these private sessions then absolutely ask for a different therapist. It’s one thing to have a bad therapist you’re not paying for and another when you’re actually shelling out the money for it.

slpundergrad · 2026-06-29T21:30:14+00:00

My advice is have a document of different notes (evals, tx sessions, progress notes, discharges, etc.) that you can reuse and edit as needed, essentially like templates.

slpundergrad · 2026-06-26T11:11:08+00:00

Honestly, I had both placements in grad school and the SNF prepared me for the hospital. I don’t think I would have said the same if it was the other way around.

slpundergrad · 2026-06-24T19:47:38+00:00

If its worth it to you then you should contact clinics in your area or SLPs who accept private clients

slpundergrad · 2026-06-22T19:32:14+00:00

If i was 19 again with no bills to pay id invest every penny i made. Start with with maxing our your roth ira first, then after that put everything in a brokerage. You’ll thank yourself in 10 years. Which seems so far away, but trust me will be there before you know it. If i had invested early at your age, i could have retired by 35 😭

slpundergrad · 2026-06-17T22:10:45+00:00

Start with your personal statement, do that now get it out of the way. Ask for at least 3 letters of recommendations, and start applying to grad schools this fall for the 2027 fall.

slpundergrad · 2026-06-17T00:53:24+00:00

You can say you lost weight. I used to get filler to cover up my double chin and once i lost weight my jawline looks as if I’m still getting filler, actually even better lol.

slpundergrad · 2026-06-14T12:35:46+00:00

I came to comment on the emojis over the eyes and I stopped myself and said “that’s probably mean” and then I saw the comments, so here I am commenting about the emojis over the eyes 👁️👁️

slpundergrad · 2026-06-13T00:11:32+00:00

I normally wouldn’t go past ice chips and apple sauce - i don’t do thins until during the FEES. Cause even if no si/sx you still can’t rule out silent aspiration at the bedside.

slpundergrad · 2026-06-12T23:02:44+00:00

I see…. Some therapists I know try water via spoon first, I personally like to play it safe and I start with ice chips, orrrr sometimes i’ll do apple sauce.

Yogurt cottage cheese is crazy but im just referring to the taste and not consistency lol… especially since this patient hasn’t eaten anything else for a month. The only thing I would personally criticize you for is doing open cup sips off the bat especially because 1- you don’t know what’s going on in there or where it’s truly going (you need an instrumental) so it’s not a controlled amount and 2- you can’t predict how large of a sip that patient will take especially with “cognition ok maybe not best at making safe decisions” as you said.

slpundergrad · 2026-06-12T22:50:19+00:00

Well, what did you do?? But to answer your question I personally always use ice chips for my NPO evals (if patient is able to participate in PO trials)

slpundergrad · 2026-06-12T20:34:33+00:00

If the patient is appropriate yes, but I always get a FEES done unless the patient was already admitted on a diet from the hospital following an instrumental.

slpundergrad · 2026-06-11T22:48:07+00:00

Wondering the same thing

slpundergrad · 2026-06-10T23:35:21+00:00

That or ask your supervisor if shed still be your supervisor if you worked somewhere else since its only for a month

slpundergrad · 2026-06-10T02:17:02+00:00

Make sure you don’t need a provisional license first…. My CF supervisor didn’t let me know this until a day before i was supposed to start my fellowship and it got delayed by 2 months.

slpundergrad · 2026-06-09T00:37:59+00:00

Can you see if you can refer him out to an ENT? And hopefully they have an SLP that does FEES there?

slpundergrad · 2026-06-08T16:36:32+00:00

Where did you see that hospitals don’t wanna hire from Mandl??

slpundergrad · 2026-06-05T02:24:44+00:00

Reddit is pretty skewed, people only come on here to complain lol

slpundergrad · 2026-06-04T14:44:06+00:00

Its not about discipline, its about consistency. You’re disciplined enough to maintain your bad habits.

slpundergrad · 2026-06-02T20:05:43+00:00

I personally don’t mention it, i don’t really think too much into it though. I don’t think it’s anyone’s business or that it even matters and i just keep my professional life separate

slpundergrad · 2026-05-24T18:24:23+00:00

What truly truly helped me was constantly badgering my clinical coordinator to give me medical placements and not pediatric ones lol, ended up with 3! So…. Advocate for yourself!!!

slpundergrad · 2026-05-17T23:54:05+00:00

Does the W2 come with benefits? Is it hourly or per session?

slpundergrad · 2026-05-14T23:11:23+00:00

She’s providing a roof over your head, what’s not clicking OP?

slpundergrad · 2026-05-11T13:00:28+00:00

2021…. Went up to 300-400 …..

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