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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2024
- Course Number:
- DH 205
- Course Title:
- Dental Hygiene Practice V
- Credit Hours:
- 5
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 150
Course Description
Covers the application of integrated multidisciplinary learning in the dental hygiene clinical practice. Emphasizes critical thinking for evidence-based treatment planning and incorporates time management and quality assessment principles into clinic management. Focuses on developing clinical skills at the novice clinician level.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:
- Employ efficient data collection and assessment at the novice clinician level.
- Recognize and address special considerations in the provision of dental hygiene care.
- Implement the dental hygiene process of care with an emphasis on periodontal patients.
- Formulate patient-centered treatment plans independently.
- Perform preventive and therapeutic hand and ultrasonic debridement at the novice level.
- Utilize pain management techniques in the provision of dental hygiene care.
- Deliver patient education with cultural humility.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Instrumentation practical exams
Skill evaluations
Formative patient experiences
Summative patient experiences