Oral Health Patient Facts
The OHNEP Program and the American College of Physicians (ACP) teamed up in 2015 to create four patient-related oral health literacy fact sheets for distribution to internal medicine physicians and primary care providers.
Interprofessional Oral Health Publications
OHNEP's mission is to increase oral health integration in primary care and nursing education and clinical practice. As part of this mission, we promote evidence-based research studies and literature that demonstrates the importance of the oral-systemic connection across the lifespan. We invite you to review the pivotal interprofessional oral health articles copied below, and check out the "Resources" tab of our website ohnep.org to browse through our publications, presentations and other resources.
OHNEP Celebrates the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife
2020 has been declared the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife by the World Health Assembly, a World Health Organization (WHO) forum.
Nurses and midwives are recognized for their devotion to providing valuable and life-saving care in hospitals, homes and throughout the community. On the frontlines of health care, nurses and midwives are especially well-positioned to provide oral health education and screening to promote oral and overall health.
Dr. Hartnett Presents the Keynote for the Launch of the Australian Network for Integrating Oral Health (NIOH)
OHNEP Program Director Dr. Erin Hartnett had the honor of inaugurating the launch of the Australian Network for the Integration of Oral Health (NIOH) at the 2nd Asia Pacific Conference on Integrated Care in Melbourne, Australia on November 12, 2019. Dr. Hartnett was invited to present by the Centre for Oral Health Outcomes and Research Translation (COHORT) at Western Sydney University in Australia, where she has been appointed as an honorary Associate Professor.
OHNEP Awarded 2019 Edge Runner by the Academy!
OHNEP is excited to announce our designation as a 2019 Edge Runner from the American Academy of Nursing! This initiative recognizes those individuals and organizations who are leaders in designing models of care and interventions to improve healthcare cost and access. OHNEP is receiving the award for its leadership in “putting the mouth back in the head” in nursing education and clinical practice, improving clinical outcomes and making positive contributions to the financial health of organizations.
Check out OHNEP's Fall 2019 Newsletter!
This quarter's newsletter highlights OHNEP achievements and projects from the Summer and Fall 2019, as well as exciting new partnerships and publications! You can check out the newsletter here.
Interested in being on our mailing list? Contact jessamin.cipollina@nyu.edu to join and get updates and announcements from OHNEP and our oral health partners!
Healthcare Inter-Professional interactions Online (HIPO)
HIPO is based on the Online Simulated Patient Interaction and Assessment platform, which has facilitated thousands of ‘medical student – Simulated Patient’ interactions since 2016. HIPO is soon to be in pilot to facilitate ‘medical student – other HP student’ interactions in an inter-institutional collaboration.
Interprofessional simulation for health professional students in the area of pain management
This IPE resource is a recent, accepted peer reviewed manuscript that is the first to investigate the use of an interprofessional pain assessment and management simulation for physiotherapy and occupational therapy students. This resource is of significant benefit to health professional educators who wish to construct interprofessional learning activities in the area of pain management. The intervention uses authentic simulation to allow interprofessional collaboration between students with effective debriefing and feedback.
Applying a contextual model of curriculum change to analyse the implementation of interprofessional learning
This IPE resource is a symposium abstract (see: https://www.otago.ac.nz/hedc/otago684376.html) and the slide presentation (including notes) (see pdf titled: CHE CC IPE Anakin et al 14 Nov 2019). It outlines how our group has used a model of curriculum change to understand the factors that may promote or inhibit the interprofessional education opportunities within and between our institutions.
Students' Experiences and Perceptions of Interprofessional Education during Rural Placement
This article reports student perceptions and readiness for interprofessional education in the rural clinical learning environment in one region of Australia. The mixed methods approach used a survey, interviews and focus groups. The findings indicated students had numerous opportunities for interprofessional education, to observe role modelling in the workplace and considered that learning with other professions would help them become more effective members of the health care team.