There is so much to consider in any clinical consultation: identifying the individual is the one you expected, who is with the individual, which therapy intervention, resources, signposting, referrals, being cued in to responses for contextual information, evaluation and outcomes, planning next steps and this is all before you throw virtual in the mix!
This clinical companion presents 50 transferable, adaptable, practical and accessible chapters for speech and language therapists and others working via remote consultations.
Divided into four sections, the book covers:
The remote practitioner. The remote rules. Creating a digital tool kit. A remotely possible future.
Aimed at students encountering their first remote consultations, newly qualified clinicians with limited practical experience of virtual clinics through to clinicians who are experienced in their own specialities but now need to transfer those skills to remote ways of delivery, this concise text will provide confidence and guidance for the reader. It will also prove useful to clinicians beyond speech and language as many of the skills and practical advice and guidance are applicable in specialities across a range of settings, both public and private, healthcare and education.
Section 1: The Remote Practitioner, Introduction: The Remotest
Possibility,
1. New to Practice: The Practicalities,
2. The Transition:
Becoming a Digital Practitioner,
3. Lets get digital! Clinical training
offers to support,
4. Digital Confidence: What does this mean in a clinical
context?,
5. Completely Competent? Using digital frameworks to digitally
enable clinical workforces,
6. A New Way of Practicing or Just Practicing a
New Way?,
7. A Digital Stage!,
8. Are Digital Clinics different? What are
they and how are they implemented?,
9. Virtual Voices! Sharing best practice
and resources, Section 2: The Remote Rules,
10. The Big Click On: Before a
Remote Consultation,
11. Virtual Virgins,
12. Testing Testing,
13. Preparing
Individuals for Change,
14. Bringing Individuals on a Digital Journey,
15.
Prepare to Prepare,
16. Lights, Camera, Action!,
17. To IG or not IG, that is
the question!,
18. Don't be IG-norant,
19. DCB easy as 123: Clinical Safety
Standards,
20. Assessing & Mitigating Risk,
21. Safeguarding and Consent:
Protecting Vulnerable Individuals,
22. During a Remote Consultation: The
Clinican Will See You Now!,
23. Buttons, buttons everywhere!,
24. Youre On
Mute,
25. Guess Who?: Clarifying Identity,
26. I Spy with My Little Eye:
Establishing and managing participants,
27. Group Therapy or Digital Party?;
Establishing Group Rules,
28. When Security Gets Personal,
29. Remote
Rapport: Forever more or nevermore?,
30. An Extra Pair of Hands: HCPs as
Digital Partners,
31. A Tangled Web; Browsers and Windows,
32. Closing
Conversations,
33. Shutdown Ending a Remote Consultation Safely, Section 3:
The Remote Tools: Creating a Digital Toolkit,
34. Ease of Access - Windows &
You!,
35. The Bare Accessibles?,
36. You, Me and ASD,
37. Seeking Approval,
38. Emotionally Speaking - using emoticons to enhance therapy,
39. Green
Screen Dreams
40. Centre of the careverse - tailoring care plans,
41. Team of
1! -creating personalised video content to support therapy programmes,
42.
Say Ahhh- getting the best intra oral images,
43. Getting attached; sharing,
receiving and saving attachments safely,
44. QR-Lity utilising QR codes in
therapy and evaluation, Section 4: A Remote Possibly Future,
45. Long Term
Planning: Developing speech and language therapy services,
46. Health
Informatics and Beyond: SLT services and digital transformation,
47. Digital
enhancements of practice; CPD, development etc.,
48. Burn baby burn;
Managing screen burnout,
49. Ensuring Mental Health and Wellbeing,
50.
Remotely Possible: A Vision for A Digital First Future
Rebekah Davies is a speech and language therapist with over 14 years of clinical experience. She is the co-author of the RCSLT Telehealth Guidance, a Topol Digital Health Fellow and a member of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and NHS Digital Academy.
