Nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and current practice of daily oral hygiene care to patients on acute aged care wards in two Australian hospitals

Special Care in Dentistry

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 285-293

  Gibney, J ^a,b   Wright, C ^a   Sharma, A ^b   Naganathan, V ^a  

^a ANZAC Research Institute   (Australia)

^b NEPEAN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

acute hospital; aged care nurses; attitudes; current practice; knowledge; oral hygiene

Indexed keywords

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDUCATION; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMAN; MOUTH HYGIENE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AGED; GERIATRIC NURSING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NEW SOUTH WALES; ORAL HYGIENE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84945436217     PISSN: 02751879     EISSN: 17544505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/scd.12131     Document Type: Article

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