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Developing and delivering a digital educational tool with an oral health focus
Abstract
The delivery of oral health care has been identified as an important part of holistic patient care. Many patients may neglect their own oral health, oral hygiene and self-care when they are hospitalised due to feeling unwell. The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust nursing quality team endeavoured to change their Trust's culture relating to oral health management for all adult inpatients. To facilitate ongoing action relating to oral hygiene and health education and training, a bespoke, mandatory digital learning package was designed, developed and delivered to relevant clinical staff at the Trust.
The delivery of oral health care has been identified as an important part of high-quality, holistic patient care (Bestwick et al, 2023; Hewson and Wood, 2023). In previous years, the management of oral health has perhaps been viewed as less important in relation to other health-related interventions and priorities. It has been suggested that hospital staff who are involved in patient care have not prioritised oral health activities. These omissions are detrimental to patients’ wellbeing (Doshi et al, 2021). Many patients may neglect their own oral health, hygiene and self-care when they are hospitalised due to feeling unwell. They may be unaware that this omission is to their detriment because, during illness and lapses in regular oral hygiene, bacteria in the mouth will increase to harmful levels and present health-related risks (Bestwick et al, 2023; Hewson and Wood, 2023). Therefore actions to highlight and address these issues are urgently required.
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