Graduate/Internship Bundle
Seven foundational badges designed for new graduates and interns in medical SLP settings.
Your Tracheostomy Homebase:
- Developing Tracheostomy Teams
- Optimizing Communication
- Increasing Dysphagia Awareness
- Integrating Speaking Valves
- Improving Multidisciplinary Education
My Specialties
Development of Tracheostomy Teams
Learn how the innovative Multidisciplinary Tracheostomy Team concept utilizes SLPs in a core role with focus on standardized protocols to streamline care and reduce adverse outcomes. Be able to implement action plans and data collection in YOUR facility!
Patient Advocacy and Family Support
Patient-centered approaches and vast experience of family and patient tracheostomy educational tools and hands on practice. Incorporate knowledge and educational programs into your facility to improve tracheostomy confidence and skill.
Tracheostomy Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Have resources and references at your fingertips with 1:1 sessions geared at amplifying your knowledge base and skill set to be prepared for any level of tracheostomy complexity.
Get to know Rachael Work
Rachael Silveira is an ASHA-credentialed Speech-Language Pathologist working at a Level 1 Trauma/Transplant Hospital in Miami, specializing in dysphagia and communication disorders. With extensive training in dysphagia management for respiratory and neurogenic conditions, Rachael is committed to continuous learning, earning yearly ACE recognition, and supporting the SLP community through clinical mentorship and educational initiatives.
She has championed patient advocacy by leading multidisciplinary Tracheostomy Teams and implementing standardized care protocols. Rachael has developed educational resources such as the "Badge Buddy Series" and TRACHtalks, focusing on evidence-based tracheostomy research. Her dedication extends to improving medical SLP education through participação em national and international conferences, research, and guest lectures at universities and hospitals.
Quick Information, Exceptional Care
The Badge Buddy series was made to have quick, easy and digestible information RIGHT on your badge! Cranial nerves, developmental milestones, and brain lesions, no problem.
Flip to your badge buddy card and have your information ready on the go!
Trauma Bundle
Six badges addressing trauma care including GCS, Ranchos scale, and respiratory management.
Trach/Vent/Respiratory Bundle
Respiratory-focused badges including tracheostomy, inline PMV, ventilator modes and parameters.
Neuro Bundle
Comprehensive nine-badge set covering neurological scales and deficits relevant to SLP practice.
Original Bundle
Eight foundational badges including tracheostomy, aphasia, cranial nerves, pneumonia, speaking valves, and dysphagia topics.
NICU Bundle
Covers NICU basics, cue-based feeding, SLP interventions, common diagnoses, developmental milestones, and APGAR.
Motor Speech Bundle
Features Apraxia Diagnosis/Treatment, Dysarthria Diagnosis/Treatment, and CNE badges.
Scales Bundle
Contains PAS, New Zealand Secretion Scale, Yale Residue Score, GRABSI, and DOSS assessment badges.
Cardiovascular Bundle
Includes Cardiovascular Terminology, CVICU Approaches, CVICU SLP Role, and Dysphagia Risk Factors badges.
Mix and Match
Please select 3 badges to mix and make your own bundle.
ALL BADGES
Over 50 Badges offering comprehensive coverage of medical SLP topics.
Lectures designed to foster our growth and development, ultimately benefiting our patients.
Mission of TRACHtalks is to provide an easy access platform for growth and development related to tracheostomies, in a safe space/judgement free zone full of passionate and interested clinicians/medical professionals. These lectures have been piloted over 2 years with live zoom calls, interactive discussions and guest speakers.
TRACHtalks Lectures are for lifelong learners whom want become better versions of ourselves in our medical communities, which ultimately will help our patients.
Lectures range from 1-2 hours. Sign up for a lecture and receive a Professional Development Hours (PDHs), powerpoint and video with audio.
Professional Consultations
With extensive education in aerodigestive tract, upper airways, complicated respiratory complications and multiple creation, implantation and sustainability of Tracheostomy Teams, providing guidance and feedback has been a lifelong dream of mine.
Book a 1:1 consultation to discuss diagnostics, treatments, or my favorite Tracheostomy Team development in your facility. Calls can be phone or zoom-based and can have follow-up sessions with interactive goal setting, proposals, and problem solving.
Bringing together collaborative minds can drive quality improvement in your facility whether it's from 1 patient situation or to a system-wide project! WE CAN DO IT.
Healthcare Provider Consultations
Are you a patient with a tracheostomy or family member/caregiver, looking for virtual assistance, guidance, or support? Look no further, With over 8 years of experience in the field, I aim to help patients and their support system navigate the world of tracheostomies from dysphagia, to communication, and overall care/cleaning and progression.
Feel free to fill out a consultation intake form and get the support you and your loved ones deserve.
Reviews
Hear what others have to say about how Rachael helped them!
Quality/Content
Perfect print and lamination. Pre-cut, easily attached to the batch clip. Great info, concise, perfect for quick reference when my brain is fried.
Quality/Content
These are fantastic and super helpful as a grad student at a medical placement. Seller also had great communication and was super helpful!
Communication
These are fantastic and super helpful as a grad student at a medical placement. Seller also had great communication and was super helpful!
Timeliness
How cute and handy these badges are! Shipping was FAST and Rachel was quick to answer any questions I had! Ordering more badges for sure.
Compassion
I reached out to Rachael seeking assistance and advice about my husband's tracheostomy as we were sent home from rehab with little training. She is kind, positive, and her expertise in this area is unmatched. I am so grateful that I was able to connect her.
Consulative Knowlegde
Rachel is an expert in her field. She was beyond helpful for my family and me when I had a tracheostomy. (Before, during, and after I had it). It was a tough time for me when I got my trach at Massachusetts General all of summer of 2023 and she was my point of contact when I had questions, concerns, support, education. I highly recommend her as a speech pathologist, educator in the tracheostomy field she is amazing. She is way ahead of the curve.
Fellow Acute Care SLP
Expertise Your recent publication "Implementation of a SLP Led Tracheostomy Team in a Level 1 Trauma Hospital" was brought up in our team meeting and now my team of SLPs want to begin to replicate your team design and have SLPs be the driving force to effect change in the population!!!
Innovation
I appreciated by 1:1 consulation session to review tracheostomy team basics and literature to present at my next leaders meeting. With your help I was able to secure a monthly meeting to bring in key player for our first ever Tracheostomy team in our rural hospital.
Contact Me
Feel free to reach out for any inquires or to schedule an appointment.
You can easily get in touch by filling out the the contact form, or send a message directly through Email, Instagram, or Facebook.
We are here to help!
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