Smiles for success: restoring functional dentition one mouth at a time.

Edentulism is the outcome of a multifactorial process involving biological factors and patient-related factors. Prosthodontics serves as a solution. Tooth replacement through prosthetic devices may be prohibitive for the underserved population due to barriers such as cost and lack of transportation.

M-OSCE as a method to measure dental hygiene students' critical thinking: a pilot study.

Educators in all academic disciplines have been encouraged to utilize assessment strategies to evaluate students' critical thinking. The purpose of this study was to assess the viability of the modified objective structured clinical examination (m-OSCE) to evaluate critical thinking in dental hygiene education. This evaluation utilized a convenience sample of senior dental hygiene students.

The history of dental hygiene in South Korea.

This historical narrative highlights the origin and development of the dental hygiene profession in South Korea. The legacy of early American missionaries to Korea includes profound and long-lasting contributions in medicine, education and theology. Many of Korea's top universities today have their roots in the missionary schools of the late nineteenth century, including Yonsei University, home of the first dental hygiene program in Korea.

Clothes encounter: patient perception of nursing attire in a behavioral health unit.

Background: In an acute behavioral health unit, patients' perceptions of nurses can be influenced by the type of clothing they wear.

Objectives: The purposes of this study were to determine if mental health patients had preferences related to nursing attire, to determine if patient preference varied with age, and to determine if nursing attire affected patients' thoughts on approachability, competence, and professionalism.

Study Design: A six-question survey was distributed to patients who met specific criteria between August and December 2008.

Therapeutic hypothermia for management of neonatal asphyxia: what nurses need to know.

Birth asphyxia can induce a cascade of reactions that result in altered brain function known as hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Possible outcomes for survivors of birth asphyxia vary widely, from a normal outcome to death, with a wide range of disabilities in between, including long-term neurodevelopmental disability, cerebral palsy, neuromotor delay, and developmental delay. Treatment of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy has centered on dampening or blocking the biochemical pathways that lead to death of neuronal cells.

Clinical practice guideline: benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.

Objectives: This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations on managing benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), which is the most common vestibular disorder in adults, with a lifetime prevalence of 2.4 percent. The guideline targets patients aged 18 years or older with a potential diagnosis of BPPV, evaluated in any setting in which an adult with BPPV would be identified, monitored, or managed.

Survey for teaching patient education in the dental hygiene curriculum.

Purpose: The primary objective of this descriptive study was to assess if and when dental hygiene curricula provide practice opportunities to students in teaching patient/client oral health self-care techniques and whether that experience was prior to their first clinical experience.

Methods: Data were collected through the use of descriptive research utilizing a two-page questionnaire containing some open-ended items. The survey was mailed to all 255 accredited dental hygiene programs in the United States and Puerto Rico in August 2000; 174 were returned.

Accuracy of referring psychiatric diagnosis on a consultation-liaison service.

The authors determined the accuracy of the initial psychiatric diagnosis of primary medical providers requesting psychiatric consultation in a general medical inpatient setting. A retrospective review of 346 consecutive psychiatric consultations was conducted in which the initial diagnostic impression of primary medical providers was compared with the final psychiatric diagnosis. Accuracy rates for cognitive disorders, substance use disorders, and depressive disorders were 100%, 88.

Insomnia in a post-acute brain injury sample.

Objective: The purpose was to establish the frequency of insomnia within the post-acute TBI population and compare it with insomnia rates among other rehabilitation outpatients.

Design: A prospective study was undertaken of 50 consecutive post-acute TBI admissions and a comparison group of 50 rehabilitation outpatients evenly divided between spinal cord injury (SCI) and musculoskeletal (MSK) cases.

Setting: Subjects were recruited at various outpatient clinics of a major rehabilitation hospital.