Nurse Faculty Enrichment and Competency Development in Oral-Systemic Health
Nurses are positioned to play a significant role in oral health promotion and disease prevention across the life cycle. Oral health has not been a high priority in nursing practice, and educating nurses about oral health has been inadequate particularly regarding the interrelationship between oral...
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| description | Nurses are positioned to play a significant role in oral health promotion and disease prevention across the life cycle. Oral health has not been a high priority in nursing practice, and educating nurses about oral health has been inadequate particularly regarding the interrelationship between oral health and overall health. The first step for developing a nursing workforce with core competencies in oral health promotion and disease prevention is to prepare nurse faculty with the requisite knowledge, skills, attitudes, and best practices in oral-systemic health. The purpose of this paper is to present Smiles for Life: A National Oral Health Curriculum as a knowledge framework that nurse faculty can use for faculty enrichment and competency development in oral health across the life cycle. A variety of teaching-learning strategies and resources are provided to assist nurse faculty with integrating oral-systemic health into existing nursing curricula. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b9789e94c33244af80196a9384eb4efb2025-02-03T01:07:01ZengWileyNursing Research and Practice2090-14292090-14372012-01-01201210.1155/2012/567058567058Nurse Faculty Enrichment and Competency Development in Oral-Systemic HealthMaria C. Dolce0New York University College of Nursing, 726 Broadway, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10003, USANurses are positioned to play a significant role in oral health promotion and disease prevention across the life cycle. Oral health has not been a high priority in nursing practice, and educating nurses about oral health has been inadequate particularly regarding the interrelationship between oral health and overall health. The first step for developing a nursing workforce with core competencies in oral health promotion and disease prevention is to prepare nurse faculty with the requisite knowledge, skills, attitudes, and best practices in oral-systemic health. The purpose of this paper is to present Smiles for Life: A National Oral Health Curriculum as a knowledge framework that nurse faculty can use for faculty enrichment and competency development in oral health across the life cycle. A variety of teaching-learning strategies and resources are provided to assist nurse faculty with integrating oral-systemic health into existing nursing curricula.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/567058 |
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| title | Nurse Faculty Enrichment and Competency Development in Oral-Systemic Health |
| title_full | Nurse Faculty Enrichment and Competency Development in Oral-Systemic Health |
| title_fullStr | Nurse Faculty Enrichment and Competency Development in Oral-Systemic Health |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nurse Faculty Enrichment and Competency Development in Oral-Systemic Health |
| title_short | Nurse Faculty Enrichment and Competency Development in Oral-Systemic Health |
| title_sort | nurse faculty enrichment and competency development in oral systemic health |
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