- Faculty:
- Brenda Rofick
- Duration:
- 4 Hours 49 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Jun 24, 2016
Description
| Manual – Bridging the Gap (2.54 MB) | 52 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
WHAT IS THE NATIONAL DYSPHAGIA DIET
- Definitions and descriptions
- Overview of liquids
- Benefits of transitioning
- Challenges, barriers, and remedies
DEFINING THE LEVELS: AS A WHOLE AND FOR EACH FOOD TYPE
- Level 1: Pureed
- Level 2: Mechanically Altered
- Level 3: Advanced
- Level 4: Regular
- Food Types: breads, cereals, desserts, fruit, vegetables, potatoes and starches, meats and proteins, soups, and miscellaneous
- Discussions of “problem foods” and which level they fit into
- Hands on practice with real facility menus
TRANSITIONING YOUR TEAM
- Team members
- Time-span and order of operations
- Menu extensions to meet State Law requirements
- Converting current patients
- Advertising
- Training staff – options and what worked best for my facility or Choosing the right training methods for your facility
- Facility signs and information for families
- Kitchen set up and manuals
- Live training during meal pass
AFTER THE TRANSITION
- Ongoing education with current and new staff
- Diet audits
- Patient and family resources and information
Faculty
Brenda Rofick Related seminars and products: 1
MS, CCC-SLP
BRENDA ROFICK, MS, CCC-SLP is a Speech-Language Pathologist whose passion lies in working with older adults. She has spent her entire career and over half of her life devoted to rehabilitating patients. She specializes in evaluating and treating numerous disorders related to speaking, swallowing, thinking, and communicating. She loves watching her patients succeed and being their therapist and friend along the way. She is well versed in transitioning a facility from three texture levels to the nationally recognized National Dysphagia Diet four-level system. Providing patients with a greater array of diet choices which have more appropriate and defined texture levels has been so rewarding—she believes our elders deserve nothing but the best!
Brenda is a member of the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA), upholding a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC). She is also licensed by the Minnesota Department of Health and has been a certified Vital Stim provider since 2012. She also believes in training our youth and has been an off-campus/on-site Clinical Practicum Supervisor for two of Minnesota’s universities.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Brenda Rofick has an employment relationship with Cerenity Senior Care. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Brenda Rofick is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
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