Welcome to the Swallow Your Pride Podcast. I'm your host Teresa Richard. I'm a board

certified specialist in Swallowing and Swallowing disorders and I know firsthand how much

confusing and conflicting information there is out there

about how we assess and treat swallowing disorders.

This podcast is all about bringing everyone together, getting on the same page, being open to new ideas, and using evidence-based

treatment strategies for our patients with dysphagia. So let's get into it.

This is episode 83 of the Swallier Pride Podcast and today we are back with Jennifer Kizner for a part two of her wonderful series on getting started with a fees program

and discussing their fees simulation program that they do so hope you guys

enjoy this episode. Let's move on to competencies.

All right.

We just like we have policies and procedures for everything,

we have our competencies and this goes to what we were talking about earlier.

Just because you can do something, just because Asha says it's within your scope of practice,

doesn't mean that you should do it until you have achieved that advanced skill.

And I've been doing fees for about 10 years now,

and it is definitely a skill.

And I'll tell you a story when I was in the

acute care the way that we were taught was we would do we would go underhand

if that makes sense where you have like elbow close to your body and everyone

said for body mechanics this is just a better way if you're going to be in

someone's nose for that long of a time and the equipment that we had you could you could either scope you know overhand or

underhand but we all learned one way and that was our motor memory. That's what we learned

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