Publications by authors named "Souhei Uchida"
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.
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- The study investigated the state and faculty perceptions of oral care education in Bachelor of Nursing programs in Japan.
- Data was collected through a questionnaire involving 196 faculty members from 295 nursing schools, revealing significant issues such as limited teaching experience, inadequate training resources, and challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The study highlights the need for enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration in oral care education to improve nursing students' skills and knowledge in this area.
Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the performance of oral assessment and health care education at nursing schools across Japan to identify problems and the need for oral health professional support.
Methods: The participants were the academic staff in charge of oral health care education in the basic, adult, gerontological, and home nursing fields of 295 schools in Japan that offered a bachelor's degree in nursing. A questionnaire was sent to 1180 heads of the nursing fields of these schools.
Objective: This study aimed to investigate nurses' perceptions of oral health care provision to inpatients in Japanese hospitals and the infection control measures taken by them after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown to promote collaborative oral health care.
Method: The participants were 1037 nurses working in inpatient wards at 4 hospitals in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey approximately 6 months after the first COVID-19 lockdown.
Objective: This study investigates the effects of a study course in oral health care on the perceptions of nursing students. The course was designed and evaluated by a multi-professional team at a Japanese nursing school.
Method: The subjects were 119 nursing students.
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.