• J Dent Educ · Jun 2019

    Collaboration of Dental Hygiene and Nursing Students on Hospital Units: An Interprofessional Education Experience.

    • Lorinda L Coan, Uditha A Wijesuriya, and Susan A Seibert.
    • Lorinda L. Coan, MS, RDH, is Associate Professor, Dental Hygiene Department, College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions, University of Southern Indiana; Uditha A. Wijesuriya, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Southern Indiana; and Susan A. Seibert, DNP, RN, CNE, is Instructor, Nursing Program, College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions, University of Southern Indiana llcoan@usi.edu.
    • J Dent Educ. 2019 Jun 1; 83 (6): 654-662.

    AbstractThe aims of this study were to implement and evaluate an innovative collaborative event with hospitalized patients to help develop dental hygiene and nursing students' interprofessional competence. The Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey (ICCAS) was used to assess the students' perceptions of interprofessional skill acquisition. Participants were 24 dental hygiene and 25 nursing students at the University of Southern Indiana in spring 2016. The results showed that all students had statistically significant improvement on the ICCAS items from pretest to posttest. There were no significant differences in improvement between the two groups on any single posttest item as the impact of the responses was similar. These results suggest that incorporating collaborative experiences in hospital settings can be an effective means to develop students' skills in interprofessional competence.

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