{"id":114829,"date":"2020-03-31T15:35:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T01:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=114829"},"modified":"2020-04-02T13:31:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T23:31:58","slug":"dental-hygiene-ppe-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/31\/dental-hygiene-ppe-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa dental hygiene program donates critical <abbr title=\"personal protective equipment\"> PPE <\/abbr>"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_114831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114831\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-dental-hygiene-gnrc.jpg\" alt=\"Dental hygiene students working on patient\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-dental-hygiene-gnrc.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-dental-hygiene-gnrc-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-dental-hygiene-gnrc-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dental hygiene students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/nursing.hawaii.edu\/dental-hygiene\">Department of Dental Hygiene<\/a> has donated much-needed personal protective equipment (<abbr>PPE<\/abbr>) to The Queen\u2019s Medical Center for the care of COVID-19 patients. The donated items included cone masks, earloop masks, gloves, gowns and bouffant caps.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donating <abbr>PPE<\/abbr> to our frontline healthcare providers is just a small way that we can play a role in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic,&rdquo; said <strong>Kristine Osada,<\/strong> dental hygiene program administrator and instructor. &#8220;&ldquo;We encourage anyone with excess <abbr>PPE<\/abbr> to donate it. Â鶹´«Ã½M&#257;noa dental hygiene wants to thank all of our medical providers responding to this crisis.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Queen\u2019s Dental Clinic has been affiliated with the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa dental hygiene program and its students for more than 25 years. As the only baccalaureate-level program in the state, students receive valuable hospital dentistry experience by assisting and observing dentists, dental residents and dental hygienists in the clinic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;<em>By Desiree Uyeda<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_114833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114833\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-dental-hygiene-ppe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-dental-hygiene-ppe.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-dental-hygiene-ppe-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-dental-hygiene-ppe-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Personal protective equipment (<abbr>PPE<\/abbr>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The donated items to The Queen\u2019s Medical Center included cone masks, earloop masks, gloves, gowns and bouffant caps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1411,1416,223,167,9],"class_list":["post-114829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-dental-hygiene","tag-school-of-nursing-and-dental-hygiene","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114829"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114835,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114829\/revisions\/114835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}