Assessing and treating adults with hearing loss in primary care

Abstract

Practice nurses have an important role in the recognition and treatment of individuals with hearing loss. In this article Banusa Kandasamy, Min Yan Miane Ng and Robert Nash present an approach to identify, examine and manage hearing loss of adults in primary care Hearing loss is a common presentation with potentially devastating implications on health and quality of life. Nurses, as frontline providers, have an important role in the recognition and treatment of individuals with hearing loss. In addition, waiting-list times and therefore cost of treatment may both be reduced with timely review and intervention by sharing the caseload in primary care. This article aims to present an approach to identify, examine and manage hearing loss of adults in primary care.