Infusing Oral Health Care into Nursing Curriculum: Addressing Preventive Health in Aging and Disability
Access to oral health care is essential for promoting and maintaining overall health and well-being, yet oral health disparities exist among vulnerable and underserved populations. While nurses make up the largest portion of the health care work force, educational preparation to address oral health...
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| description | Access to oral health care is essential for promoting and maintaining overall health and well-being, yet oral health disparities exist among vulnerable and underserved populations. While nurses make up the largest portion of the health care work force, educational preparation to address oral health needs of elders and persons with disabilities is limited across nursing curricula. This descriptive study reports on the interdisciplinary development, implementation, and testing of an oral health module that was included and infused into a graduate nursing curriculum in a three-phase plan. Phase 1 includes evaluation of a lecture presented to eight gerontological nurse practitioner (GNP) students. Phase 2 includes evaluation of GNP students’ perceptions of learning, skills, and confidence following a one-time 8-hour practicum infused into 80 required practicum hours. The evaluation data show promise in preparing nurse practitioner students to assess and address preventive oral health needs of persons aging with disabilities such that further infusion and inclusion in a course for nurse practitioners across five specialties will implemented and tested in Phase 3. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4e1fd4ca4dec4534ab572bad199f28b72025-02-03T01:29:01ZengWileyNursing Research and Practice2090-14292090-14372012-01-01201210.1155/2012/157874157874Infusing Oral Health Care into Nursing Curriculum: Addressing Preventive Health in Aging and DisabilityJoan Earle Hahn0Leah FitzGerald1Young Kee Markham2Paul Glassman3Nancy Guenther4Department of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services, University of New Hampshire, 4 Library Way, Hewitt Hall Room 279, Durham, NH 03824-3563, USAUCLA School of Nursing, Factor Building, P.O. Box 956919, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6919, USAUCLA School of Nursing, Factor Building, P.O. Box 956919, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6919, USAUniversity of the Pacific School of Dentistry, 2155 Webster Street, San Francisco, CA 94115, USALiving Healthy with a Disability Program, California Department of Public Health, 1616 Capitol Avenue, Suite 74-660, P.O. Box 997377, MS 7214, Sacramento, CA 95899, USAAccess to oral health care is essential for promoting and maintaining overall health and well-being, yet oral health disparities exist among vulnerable and underserved populations. While nurses make up the largest portion of the health care work force, educational preparation to address oral health needs of elders and persons with disabilities is limited across nursing curricula. This descriptive study reports on the interdisciplinary development, implementation, and testing of an oral health module that was included and infused into a graduate nursing curriculum in a three-phase plan. Phase 1 includes evaluation of a lecture presented to eight gerontological nurse practitioner (GNP) students. Phase 2 includes evaluation of GNP students’ perceptions of learning, skills, and confidence following a one-time 8-hour practicum infused into 80 required practicum hours. The evaluation data show promise in preparing nurse practitioner students to assess and address preventive oral health needs of persons aging with disabilities such that further infusion and inclusion in a course for nurse practitioners across five specialties will implemented and tested in Phase 3.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/157874 |
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| title | Infusing Oral Health Care into Nursing Curriculum: Addressing Preventive Health in Aging and Disability |
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| title_short | Infusing Oral Health Care into Nursing Curriculum: Addressing Preventive Health in Aging and Disability |
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