Hearing Awareness Project
- Disability legislation is changing all over Canada, improving communication for hard of hearing patients is no longer an option.
- Consider the special needs of your patients by conducting a communication accessibility audit.
- Accessibility audits and funding need to be part of each annual budget.
- Your facility may require listening, signaling and telephone devices. Do you know where to obtain them?
- Medical charts change hands frequently. With your patients permission, identify their chart with a hearing access symbol and include a communication fact sheet.
- Accessibility will only improve when there is a policy to ensure compliance. Your board of directors needs to implement such a policy.
- Each department needs to know the protocol to follow when they identify hard of hearing patients.
- Staff training is the key to removing communication barriers.
- Medicine and nursing students need training too. Your advocacy for hearing awareness training in post secondary facilities, will help you in the long term.
To obtain further informaton on accessibility audits, devices, and staff training, contact the CHHA National Office.
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