2021-2022 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2021-2022 Catalog and Student Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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DH 415 - Clinical Dental Hygiene III


Credits: 4
Description
Integrated practice of the dental hygiene process of care: use of diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic procedures and professional judgement with a focus on competent ability.

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Integrate self-reflection to assess professional growth.
  2. Integrate tobacco use and cessation modalities into dental hygiene practice.
  3. Judge teamwork between the student practitioner, patient’s dentist, and physician to provide safe, optimal dental hygiene care.
  4. Justify the need for dental imaging including the appropriate technique and interpretation without assistance of the faculty.
  5. Appraise the patient’s need for pain control in clinical situations and administer local anesthesia and nitrous oxide analgesia according to the standard of care.
  6. Integrate each patient’s medical history, vital signs, and patient assessment data into care planning and delivery of treatment using standards of care.
  7. Integrate information literacy and research skills into all aspects of dental hygiene practice.
  8. Perform a clinical demonstration of skills on a standardized patient to the level of competence in preparation for licensure.
  9. Perform a clinical demonstration of skills on a standardized patient to the level of competence in preparation for licensure.

Prerequisite: Admission to the B.S. Dental Hygiene program
Corequisite: None
Graded: Letter Grade



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