Implementation of peer-to-peer oral care objective structured clinical examination-based learning for nursing students.

Aim: Nurses' skills and confidence in providing oral care to patients play important roles in healthcare. Studies have proved that peer-to-peer learning and assessment can help improve nurses' skills and confidence. However, no study has investigated it using an objective assessment checklist.

Factors associated with nurses' performance of oral assessments and dental referrals for hospital inpatients.

Background: Nurses' oral assessment and dental referral performance for inpatients are important to provide appropriate oral care services in hospitals. The purpose of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and performance of oral assessments and dental referrals for their inpatients among nurses and to identify factors associated with that performance to promote oral health care in hospitals.

Methods: All nurses (n = 919) who worked at five hospitals in Japan were recruited as responders.