@BeckSullivanSLP

married to a giant, huge Raiders fanatic, speech pathologist, hopeful SLP researcher, Wiradjuri descendant, humble recipient of Jumbunna Post Grad Scholarship

Joined December 2009
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Amy Freeman-Sanderson@DrAmyFS3 May 2024
Thrilled to be awarded an IG! Advancing work to co-design person centred interventions to optimise #communication outcomes for critically ill adults across the continuum. Grateful to all my mentors and family to have this dream a reality. @UTS_Health @improvelto @FranklinWomen
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@nhmrc2 May 2024
Congratulations to the 229 high-performing Australian health and medical researchers who will receive over $411 million from the 2024 Investigator Grant round! Read more on these funding outcomes in our media release: ow.ly/xqw950RtcqQ
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#Deadly welcome from Wesley College Moorditj Mob Dancers @WesleyPerth at the #NAHC2023
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I’m at the #NAHC2023 today, come and chat about poster 111 #Falls #CommunicationDisability #MyDeadlyPhD @national_allied
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NEW: Research on #Hospital #Falls #Policies in relation to patients with #CommunicationDisability publish.csiro.au/AH/AH22289 #MyDeadlyPhD @BronwynHemsley @iwskinner @EH_Research
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TLDR:#CommunicationDisability is not often captured as a #risk factor for a fall on Ax tools. Limited guidance for staff to adapt #FallsPreventionEducation for patients with #CommunicationDisability Limited identified role for speech path in falls prevention or management #SLP
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I’m home #WeAreRaiders #BleedGreen #NRLRaidersTitans
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Patients with #aphasia are a falls risk in hospital. Aphasia-friendly fall prevention and management should be routine. – at Iceland
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NEW: Research on falls in patients with communication disability after stroke in hospital. #falls #communicationdisability #aphasia #MyDeadlyPhD onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

‘Patient unable to express why he was on the floor, he has aphasia.’ A content thematic analysis of...

Background People with communication disability following stroke are at risk of falls during inpatient rehabilitation. However, they are often excluded from hospital falls research, and little is...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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TLDR: Difficulties following instructions, communicating basic needs & gaining staff attention were contributing factors to falls. Patients fell when taking a risk or trying to meet a basic need. Communication disability complicated assessment for injury post fall.
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Clinical implications: Including #SLP in falls risk assessment, management, and prevention strategies may provide crucial information regarding the patient's communication disability that may enhance their fall prevention plan. #slpeeps
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As predicted by @BronwynHemsley at the beginning of this journey, the #thesis writing is occurring at the skate park right now #MyDeadlyPhD
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And this is how that skate park outing ended…. Fractured arm and cracked collarbone!
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NEW: the first results paper from my PhD examining the circumstances and outcomes of falls in patients with communication disability following stroke during inpatient rehab. #Aphasia #Falls #MyDeadlyPhD #Stroke protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xD…
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TLDR: most common type of fall was an unwitnessed fall/roll from bed. Patient factors contributed to 50% of all falls. A third of falls a contributing factor couldn’t be identified due to patients communication disability & fall being unwitnessed. Limited insights to outcomes
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@BronwynHemsley @iwskinner @EH_Research @SAGE_Publishing
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Arrived in sunny Adelaide for the #Safety2022 conference. First up: Falls prevention workshop.
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Rebecca Sullivan retweeted
Amy Freeman-Sanderson@DrAmyFS1 Nov 2022
Last 24 hours to participate👇 People and family with lived experience Clinicians Researchers #communicationmatters @SpeechPathAus @RCSLT @RCSLTResearch @ICS_updates @ESICM @ATSCritCare @atscommunity @ICUsteps @SCCM @anzicrc
Amy Freeman-Sanderson@DrAmyFS5 Sep 2022
Do you work with people with a breathing tube in #ICU? Have you had a breathing tube? Tell us what is important to measure in #communication interventions. Participate in our Delphi to inform a #CommunicationIntervention #CoreOutcomeSet access here👇👇👇delphimanager.liv.ac.uk/ICUC…
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