An informative poster for nursing students about adult and elderly mouth care

Mouth care is a global challenge that show various minor to major effects on people’s well-being. From a nursing point-of-view the mouth health and care include understanding about the anatomy, diseases, effects of aging and drugs, as well as equipment and treatments of the mouth. The nursing provides people with information, guidance, encouragement, and help with the actual mouth care. A constructive developing action model is applied to create nursing students an informative poster about adult and elderly mouth care. Three steps: planning, implementation, and evaluation, are used as the thesis structure. In planning information is gathered, which is then used in the implementation to create the poster. Lastly, the poster is evaluated via a questionnaire and analysis. The result of this research is two informative posters to provide information of mouth care from adult and elderly point of view including nurse’s roles, five most common mouth disease or issue, effects of drugs, and use of care equipment. Questionnaire survey was conducted to evaluate the poster. The findings of the questionnaire suggest that students could need more informative posters and further information about mouth care and especially the different mouth diseases or mouth related issues. The limitations of generalizability and limited experience of research are overcome by rigorous and reflective process. With respect to the meaningfulness of the mouth care, the findings of the questionnaire suggest that students could need more informative posters and further information about mouth care and especially the different diseases or mouth related issues