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Aug 31, 2024
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DEA 576 - Dental Assisting Clinic I Credits: 3 Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 12 Course Type: Voc/Tech Application of knowledge and skills as student rotate through dental healthcare settings. At least 50% of rotations are in general dental practices with the remaining rotations in specialty dental practices Prerequisite: DEA 253 , DEA 256 , DEA 507 , DEA 424 , DHY 221 , DHY 161 Corequisite: DEA 591 , DEA 615 , DEA 263 , DEA 321 , DEA 702 Competencies
- Evaluate professional work habits
- Display promptness and excellent attendance
- Define and describe self-motivation
- Illustrate organizational skills
- Perform professional patient and coworker communications
- Apply a clean, neat and professional appearance
- Demonstrates self-control
- Accepts constructive criticism
- Seeks help and guidance, if needed
- Apply infection control techniques designed to prevent the spread of transmitted diseases to the care of all patients following OSHA/CDC guidelines
- Identify and apply OSHA/CDC recommended guidelines
- Illustrate aseptic technique
- Identify proper sterilization techniques
- Identify proper disinfecting techniques
- Describe and utilize barriers to transmission
- Demonstrate proper PPE needed for all procedures
- Demonstrate employability skills
- Perform operative skills needed for 4 handed dentistry
- Practice communication skills, verbal and written
- Utilize patient management skills
- Demonstrate dental office maintenance skills
- Development of problem solving skills
- Illustrate anticipation of operator needs
- Display proper housekeeping techniques
- Review with the patient dental disease chain, plaque control techniques, and dietary considerations
- Recite personalized oral hygiene instructions
- Discuss dietary needs of the patient
- Develop a nutritional plan for a patient
- Use of the “show and tell” technique
- Collect feedback to check communication success
- Perform clinical supportive functions
- Prepare, seat and dismiss patient
- Perform laboratory functions
- Arrange tray set ups
- Demonstrate rubber cup polish and fluoride application
- Maintain patient records
- Manipulate materials used in dentistry in a chairside or laboratory setting
- Provide diagnostic aids, including radiographs, patient records, vital signs and laboratory functions
- Produce radiographs as operator requests
- Reproduce intra oral structures in the form of a study model
- Operate an intra oral camera
- Take and record vital signs
- Assist with general business office procedures
- Perform filing, billing, and other front office duties
- Collect patient records for the following day
- Assist with confirming patients
- Maintain reception room
- Display additional assisting skills
- Identifies and considers the safety and comfort of the patient
- Displays adaptability
- Uses equipment and supplies with care, ingenuity and economy
- Identifies signs and symptoms presented by patients and the changes that take place
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