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Letter to the Editor: Licensure Portability for Occupational Audiologists is Essential

Occupational audiologists have a crisis in their profession and need advocates. These audiologists are primarily responsible for industrial hearing conservation programs and their compliance with multiple regulations, such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Mine Safety and Heal...

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Autor principal: COOK, GEORGE R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5716620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29238452
http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ijt.2017.6234
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description Occupational audiologists have a crisis in their profession and need advocates. These audiologists are primarily responsible for industrial hearing conservation programs and their compliance with multiple regulations, such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) and the Federal Railroad Administration. Occupational hearing programs, for the most part, are multi-state programs as companies and corporations are national organizations. Also, companies may contract services across state lines as local services may not be desired or available. Individual state telepractice regulations require audiologists who are professionally supervising these programs via the internet and phone, to secure licensure in each state. For this licensure redundancy, the cost in time and tracking are enormous. It is imperative that the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), secure multistate licensure for speech-language pathologists and audiologists. For the profession of occupational audiology, it is essential.
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spelling pubmed-57166202017-12-13 Letter to the Editor: Licensure Portability for Occupational Audiologists is Essential COOK, GEORGE R. Int J Telerehabil Letter to the Editor Occupational audiologists have a crisis in their profession and need advocates. These audiologists are primarily responsible for industrial hearing conservation programs and their compliance with multiple regulations, such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) and the Federal Railroad Administration. Occupational hearing programs, for the most part, are multi-state programs as companies and corporations are national organizations. Also, companies may contract services across state lines as local services may not be desired or available. Individual state telepractice regulations require audiologists who are professionally supervising these programs via the internet and phone, to secure licensure in each state. For this licensure redundancy, the cost in time and tracking are enormous. It is imperative that the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), secure multistate licensure for speech-language pathologists and audiologists. For the profession of occupational audiology, it is essential. University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2017-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5716620/ /pubmed/29238452 http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ijt.2017.6234 Text en This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5716620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29238452
http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ijt.2017.6234
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