Faculty Tool Kits

Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Tool Kit for Primary Care Nurse Practitioner and Midwifery Programs

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Overview

The Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Tool Kit is based on the IPEC Competencies, the NONPF Core Competencies and the HRSA interprofessional oral health core competencies delineated in the Integration of Oral Health and Primary Care Practice report (2014). Developed by the OHNEP program, the Tool Kit is an innovative, web-based, open source product intended to facilitate the integration of oral-systemic health content and clinical competencies into nurse practitioner and midwifery curricula.

The Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Tool Kit is organized by program and describes how to “weave” evidence-based oral-systemic health content, teaching-learning strategies, and clinical experiences into pediatric, family, adult-gerontology, acute care, women’s health, psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner and midwifery programs.

The Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Tool Kit can serve as a starting point for faculty, clinicians, and organizations as they work to play a leadership role in building interprofessional oral health workforce capacity to improve oral health access, decrease oral health disparities, improve oral health and overall health outcomes, prepare for accreditation, and enhance the health of the communities they serve.

How to Begin

Read Putting the Mouth Back In the Head: HEENT to HEENOT (Haber at al., 2015) to begin understanding the importance of including the oral examination as an integral part of every patient assessment.

Identify Oral Health Champions who can advocate for the necessity of including oral health as a standard component of education and clinical practice to others

Implement faculty & preceptor development workshops where Oral Health Champions can teach other educators & instructors how to assess, manage, educate and refer patients for dental treatment. See: NYU College of Nursing’s Master’s Program Oral Health Preceptor Recognition Breakfast and Professional Development Day

Pick and choose assignments from the pertinent curricular template (PNP, FNP, AGPCNP, AGACNP, PMHNP, WHNP or Nurse Midwifery) that fit in with your existing course content, thereby "weaving" oral health into the curriculum. For example, you can seamlessly include assignments on the oral implications of diabets into your lecture on diabetes!

Changing the status quo always requires effort, but, step-by-step, we can begin to change clinical practice! As always, the OHNEP leaders and staff are available to answer any questions you may have on integrating oral health into education using the Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Tool Kit. Please contact us at jec646@nyu.edu (Jessamin Cipollina, Program Coordinator), jh33@nyu.edu (Judith Haber, Executive Director) or hartne01@nyu.edu (Erin Hartnett, Program Director).