2021-2022 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2021-2022 Catalog and Student Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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DH 115 - Clinical Practice I


Credits: 3
Description
Practice in performing oral prophylaxis, sterilization, patient management, patient education, fluoride use, charting, inspection of teeth, patient scheduling and recare systems.

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Demonstrate problem solving skills and professional behavior.
  2. Develop a personal philosophy of dental hygiene practice.
  3. Demonstrate cultural competence while providing dental hygiene care.
  4. Evaluate instructor guidance, peer review, and remediation as a learning experience that contributes to professional knowledge and growth.
  5. Exercise teamwork between the student provider, patient’s dentist and physician to provide safe, effective and efficient dental hygiene care.
  6. Develop a dental hygiene diagnosis that can be addressed by dental hygiene intervention services or strategies.
  7. Provide dental hygiene preventive services through the dental hygiene process of care: assessment of patient needs, formation of a dental hygiene diagnosis, planning for the prevention and treatment of oral disease, implementation of various dental hygiene services and evaluation of both the patient and practitioner efforts and oral health outcomes.
  8. Demonstrate research skills through case review and the patient case write-up
  9. Assess self-reflections for dental hygiene growth professionally and personally to set new goals for achievement.

Prerequisite: DH 104  and DH 105  
Corequisite: None
Graded: Letter Grade



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