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Experiencing a Crisis: the nurse's role module assessment (Module code: HCN14-2) Martina Bazikova This assessment will demonstrate an understanding of learning and teaching processes and theories in relation to a teaching session given on the subject of oral health. This topic was chosen as the writer feels that, in her experience, effective oral care is provided by nurses on an infrequent basis. Maintaining appropriate and successful oral care can have an enormous impact on an individual's well-being and also can enhance their self-image (Xavier 2000, Shepherd 2002). The nurse's role is to provide mouth care or to supervise self-care or care by relatives as necessary (Turner 1996). Yet many nurses seem to have little awareness of their responsibility to provide oral care, and those that do are often neglectful in their care (Fitzpatrick 2000). This view is supported by Adams (1996), whose research indicates that both pre- and post-registration nurses had a...

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