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Effect of an oral health assessment education program on nurses’ knowledge and patient care practices in skilled nursing facilities
Author(s) -
Munoz Nancy,
TougerDecker Riva,
ByhamGray Laura,
Maillet Julie O'Sullivan
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
special care in dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.328
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1754-4505
pISSN - 0275-1879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-4505.2009.00084.x
Subject(s) - medicine , intervention (counseling) , nursing , family medicine , minimum data set , session (web analytics) , health care , medical record , oral health , nurse education , nursing homes , world wide web , computer science , economics , radiology , economic growth
This pilot intervention study measured the impact of an oral health education intervention on nurses’ knowledge and patient care practices in regard to oral assessments of institutionalized elders. Two 1‐hour education sessions were completed over a 3‐week period; a pretest and a posttest were administered immediately preceding the first session and immediately following the second session. Medical records were reviewed prior to and after the intervention to assess practices including completeness of oral health assessment and congruency with the Minimum Data Set 2.0 (MDS). Nine nurses attended the education intervention. Retrospectively, 176 records were reviewed preintervention and 80 postintervention. There was no significant change in knowledge from the pre‐ to posttest ( p = .262). Completeness of all oral health assessment variables increased significantly ( p = .001) as did the congruency of data between the nursing assessment (NA) and MDS assessments ( p = .002). Providing nurses with education on oral health assessments in skilled nursing facilities has a positive impact on completeness of data and congruency between the NA and the MDS.