Hi Reader,
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Help me decide how to organize multi-skill handouts for the print book! See "What I'm working on" for more details.

Today, I'm sharing a completely updated patient handout. Link is in the 'Featured EST post & handout' section below.

I've also been taking Hospice continuing education courses. One of the SLPs shared a treasure-trove of fact sheets. You can find links to several in the "Something worth sharing" section at the end of this email. I picked ones that apply across levels of care.

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​🧠What I'm working on

I'm off to a solid start making the spiral-bound handout book. I have 7 of 11 swallow-themed handouts completely ready.

This took me longer than expected, because I updated the content of four of the handouts, adding 3 completely new pages.

In the digital Resource Binder, I have a "Special Conditions" section with 23 handouts. Some of these cover more than one skill area (think "ALS" or "Bell's Palsy").

In the digital PDF, it doesn't matter if I include a handout in more than one section.

But in the print version, more pages = more cost.

I don't plan to duplicate handouts in the print books. (The handouts will probably be split into 2 books, since it's a lot of pages. I want people to be able to make copies easily.)

If I keep the special conditions as a separate section, I'm worried people won't think to look there. They may just go to the "swallowing" section if they're looking for swallow-related handouts.

Thoughts?

🎓Continuing education & colleague support

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🎁 Featured EST post & handout

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Early access to one of my updated handouts! If you're recommending pureed food for someone, you may like to give them this new 2-page handout.

The "Easy and delicious pureed vegetables" page is adapted from a chef teaching how to make restaurant-quality pureed veggies.

The "How to puree meat" page is comprehensive for pureeing cooked meat, with separate instructions for warm vs cold meat.

For comparison, here is the original handout. I made this handout over four years ago when I evaluated a patient who had been eating pudding and yogurt since coming home on a pureed food diet because they didn't know how to puree food.

I actually run into this issue a lot. While I have gone into the kitchen to teach hands-on how to puree food once or twice, usually I just provide detailed instruction. I also bought two dysphagia cookbooks that I show my patients (or their spouses).

Here is the original blog post. I haven't updated the handout on the blog post yet. You're getting early access!

🌐 Something worth sharing​
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• ​Fast Facts from the Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin. I learned about this resource from a continuing ed course I recently took. Here are some examples:

• #527: Vocalization and Communication Pearls for Patients with Complex Airways.
• #468: Serious Illness Considerations for Indigenous People of North America.
• #120: Clinicians and Prayer Requests.

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Stay safe and be well,

Lisa
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