June is Oral Health Month, giving health professionals the opportunity to recognize the importance of oral health in promoting overall positive health outcomes. Year-round, OHNEP enhances the nursing profession’s interprofessional role in oral health and its links to overall health in both academic and clinical settings.
The latest Gerontological Society of America (GSA) newsletter, "What's Hot" examines the “Interrelationships between Nutrition and Oral Health in Older Adults”.
We are thrilled to announce that OHNEP Executive Director Dr. Judith Haber was named an NYU Alumni Changemaker! Dr. Haber is recognized for her visionary accomplishments that help build a better world.
2020 is the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, and today is Florence Nightingale's 200th Birthday! Now more than ever, nurses and healthcare workers on the front lines need our support. We thank those who have been working tirelessly to protect us and our families, and who have been healing and saving lives nonstop.
The coronovirus (COVID-19) global pandemic has caused dental practices across the U.S. to close, changing business as usual to business as "unusual". The entirety of the healthcare workforce - physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses and more - are stretched thin during this public health crisis.
OHNEP Program Director Dr. Erin Hartnett was interviewed for the feature article in the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) news magazine, the ONS Voice. The article, "The Value of Vigilance: New Screening Recommendations Are Vital for Cancer Prevention" discusses how cancer screenings are vital to prevention and increasing chances of survival.
