Lack of access in healthcare delivery: a model for using dental hygienists in a cost effective manner to help address the oral healthcare problem.

The healthcare delivery of the United States is confronted with many issues and problems. In an attempt to deal with them, the country has been engaged in a process of healthcare reform. Unfortunately, this reform has largely focused on who is going to pay, what is going to be covered, and how all of the constituencies are hopefully going to be satisfied.

A center for oral health promotion: establishing an inter-professional paradigm for dental hygiene, health care management and nursing education.

The need for education about oral health conditions has been discussed in recent years. Current research has shown correlations between oral and systemic disease. Disease entities have been connected to bacteremia and inflammatory process es, both of which can result from oral pathologies.

Dental hygiene students' attitudes toward ethical dilemmas in practice.

This article reports the findings of a survey-based study conducted in 2006 to determine graduating dental hygiene students' attitudes toward ethical dilemmas in eight areas of practice: substandard care, overtreatment of patients, scope of practice, fraud, confidentiality, impaired professionals, sexual harassment, abuse, and health status. The findings, based on responses from 1,165 students at 141 U.S.

Turnover of certified nursing assistants: a major problem for long-term care facilities.

The increasing number of aging Americans who will need long-term care, coupled with the need to keep this care affordable, represents a formidable challenge to the healthcare system. Some response must be made to address what will soon become immediate need. A significant part of the approach to this problem lies in making long-term care as efficient, cost effective, and affordable as possible.