DH 406 - Future Directions in Dental Hygiene

Credits: 2

Description
Exploration of career options to facilitate selection of a specialization track. Emphasis placed on current literature and policies that affect the future of the dental hygiene profession. Critical analysis of existing dental practice acts.

Student Learning Outcomes

Summarize the history and progression of Dental Hygiene as a profession.
Explain the differences and imbalances in access to oral health care services.
Compare and contrast the disparities in access to care according to socioeconomic levels, race and ethnicity, age, and gender.
Justify how expanding access and ensuring equity to oral health care will improve the health of the nation.
Outline the focus areas essential to bring about change for the dental hygiene profession and its role in health care delivery.
Assess the future opportunities for dental hygienists in new and growing fields of practice.
Analyze the advances in science and technology and how they will affect health care.
Defend how the educational standards for dental hygiene providers will allow them to best serve the public.
Verify the supervision requirements required for expanded function opportunities.
Examine how self-regulation factors in to the health and longevity of the dental hygiene profession.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Bachelor of Science Dental Hygiene Degree Program