JCPSLP Vol 20 No 2 July 2018

Entrepreneurship in speech-language pathology

From the editor Leigha Dark

Contents

W elcome to the July 2018 issue of the Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology. In this full and varied issue we explore various forms of entrepreneurship in speech-language pathology. Many people, upon hearing the word ‘entrepreneurship’, might think of the launching of a profitable small business, private practice, or new technological start up. Indeed, one of the common definitions of entrepreneurship is “the capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks in order to make a profit” (WebFinance Inc, 2018). But profit alone is usually not the sole purpose of business. Rather,

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pathology professional identity in response to workforce redesign – Rachael O’Brien, Rebecca Mitchell, and Nicole Byrne 57 Clinical judgement just as reliable as an explicit prioritisation tool: A comparison of three prioritisation approaches for inpatient speech pathology – Jo Brady and Katherine Harding 63 Facial nerve palsy and speech- language pathology intervention using sEMG – Terri Herne and Anne Whitworth 70 Administration of Co-Phenylcaine Forte nasal spray during nasendoscopy: Implementing and evaluating this extended scope role for speech-language pathologists – Maria Schwarz, Elizabeth C. Ward, Marnie Seabrook, Anne Coccetti, and Bernard C.S. Whitfield 76 Seeing the big picture: The use of ultrasound in treating functional speech disorders in school-aged children in a community health setting – Rachel Furniss and Thizbe Wenger 83 Speech-language pathologists and audiologists working with deaf or hard of hearing clients in Australia: Views on interprofessional collaboration – Rebecca Smith, Nicole Byrne, and Megan Barr 89 What’s the evidence? Important elements to consider when setting up an ethical allied health practice – Belinda Hill 93 Ethical conversations: The ethics of entrepreneurship in speech-language pathology – Patricia Bradd, Grant Meredith, and Trish Johnson 96 Webwords 61: Entrepreneurship and speech-language pathology – Caroline Bowen 98 Around the Journals 100 Resource review 101 Top 10: Tools to help speech-language pathologists plan and run a private practice – David Kinnane 103 Obituary: In memory of Dr Justine Joan Sheppard – Susan Balandin, Bronwyn Hemsley, Georgia Malandraki, and Hilda Pressman

identifying and creating value for stakeholders is an important driver. In our profession value may take the form of enhanced outcomes for patients and clients, increased equity of service access, improved efficiency and sustainability of services, powerful advocacy, and social capital in the form of empowered and connected communities. As such, all speech-language pathologists have the potential to be entrepreneurial in their thinking and work; perhaps by contributing to a quality improvement project, implementing a service enhancement, trialing a new therapeutic idea or building a professional network, if not in the more traditional sense of building a business. In the first article, Rachael O’Brien and colleagues explore the ways in which workforce change influences speech-language pathologists’ professional identity. Jo Brady and Katherine Harding, consider the reliability of three different methods for prioritising services and managing resource allocation. Terri Herne and Anne Whitworth, report on the outcomes of an intensive, individualised service for patients with facial nerve palsy (FNP) based on mime and neuromuscular re-education involving the use of surface electromyography (sEMG) and mirror feedback. In their article, Maria Schwarz and colleagues examine the extended scope role of SLPs in medication administration, outlining the process undertaken within one service to obtain rights for the administration of Co-Phenylcaine Forte nasal spray to low risk patients during nasendoscopy. Rachael Furniss and Thizbe Wenger explore the use of ultrasound as an adjunct to traditional articulation therapy in children diagnosed with speech sound disorders. In the final article, Rebecca Smith and her colleagues present the views of speech-language pathologists and audiologists on inter-professional collaboration. To finish this editorial I have both welcomes and a farewell to share. Firstly, I am very pleased to congratulate and welcome to the editorial committee Dr Maree Doble, Dr Emma Finch, Dr Rachael Unicomb and Mr Shaun Ziegenfusz. This issue however is the last instalment of the popular and longstanding column, Webwords, authored by Dr Caroline Bowen. Dr Bowen wrote the first Webwords column in 1999, when the journal was known as ACQ (Acquiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing) , and over the last 19 years has not missed an issue. Here we are at Webwords 61, and one need only read the range of Webwords titles to appreciate not only how far the profession has come (e.g., the first Webwords was titled “Getting to know the internet”), but also the extraordinary depth and breadth of information curated by Dr Bowen. Topics have encompassed all SLP range of practice areas, professional issues, ethics and evidence-based practice, clinical practice across the lifespan, mental health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, consumer advocacy, the National Disability Insurance Scheme and social media. I am but one in a long list of ACQ/JCPSLP editors who have had the pleasure of working with Dr Bowen, delighting each time a Webwords instalment appeared in the inbox; conversational, witty, sharply insightful, impeccably researched, polished and topical. In 2012, as part of Webwords 42, Dr Bowen wrote: The first three Webwords columns appeared in ACQ in 1999, the International Year of the Older Person and the year that Speech Pathology Australia celebrated its 50th birthday. It continued to thrive when the association turned 60 in 2009, but we will need to think about a succession plan (or a wake) for the ageing Webwords some time between now and the association’s 70th and the author’s 75th in 2019. Well, that time is now. A succession plan will be unveiled in the next issue. However, it is a less a wake that is required and more a celebration of the enormously valuable contribution of Dr Bowen to the speech-language pathology profession. On behalf of JCPSLP teams past and present I extend a huge thank you and warmest wishes to you, Dr Caroline Bowen.

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