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DHY 301 - Dental Hygiene IV Credits: 2 Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: Open A continuation of clinical practices. Legal, ethical and management aspects of the dental care system are considered. Career alternatives and job-seeking skills are demonstrated. Prerequisite: DHY 292 , DHY 291 . Corequisite: DHY 302 Competencies
- Assessment of personal wants, needs and talents to enhance goal setting and selection of a career pathway
- Identify factors that health care providers often express as important considerations in selecting a practice setting
- Identify concerns that should be considered in assessing how a practice setting meets one’s priorities
- Explain how a formal decision making process applied to selecting an employment setting can clarify the strengths and weaknesses of each possible decision
- Identify how a dental hygienist can develop effective management and leadership skills that can be used by the dental hygiene clinician, office manager, change agent, consumer advocate, educator, or researcher
- Differentiate between leadership and management
- Explain how the dental hygienist uses the leadership process to benefit the client, the oral health team, society, and the dental hygiene profession.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how Iowa dental consumers have been affected by changes in the Iowa code and Rules for Dental Hygiene Practice.
- Explain how the dental hygienist uses the leadership process to benefit the client, the oral health team, society, and the dental hygiene profession
- Explain how leadership and management skills can be used to effect change
- Demonstrate knowledge of how Iowa dental consumers have been affected by changes in the Iowa Code and Rules for Dental Hygiene Practice
- Recognize the business aspects and resources needed to run a dental practice
- Develop a mission statement and goals for the dental hygiene component of a dental practice
- Discuss economic considerations for a profitable practice including production, collection and office overhead.
- Describe marketing plans for promoting a dental practice.
- Outline the three types of appointment book management systems
- Discuss economic considerations for a profitable practice including production, collection and office overhead
- Develop a marketing plan for promoting a dental practice
- Appreciate how dental hygiene productivity contributes to overall practice goals
- Outline a personal plan for career development in the profession of Dental Hygiene
- Describe job search strategies, including a list of sources and a prioritized list of job selection criteria
- Explain the contributions of the dental hygienist to the dental practice
- Compare and contrast the methods of remuneration, including elements of risk and security and range in value for each.
- Evaluate job performance, including expectations and techniques necessary for changing performance.
- Describe employment alternatives to clinical practice.
- Describe employment alternatives to clinical practice
- Prepare a resume and develop interviewing skills that will present the applicant as capable and confident for a specific job opportunity
- Explain what a resume is and how it can affect an employer’s decision to offer employment to an individual
- Specify the usual components of a resume and cover letter
- Identify which items are by law not to be considered by employers in offering employment
- Prepare a personal resume and cover letter.
- Explain briefly the purpose and significance of the interview in finding employment
- Prepare for an interview session by using pre-interview techniques including
- Outline follow-up procedures that can enhance the effectiveness of the interview and perhaps increase the possibility of receiving an offer of a position
- Develop a plan for personal financial management, including an annual budget, adequate insurance coverage, investment goals, and a retirement plan.
- Identify payment mechanisms related to the provision of health care
- Identify the advantages and disadvantages of remuneration types and select a method that is most compatible with one?s own personal goals
- Summarize ways in which cost effectiveness and overall productivity can be measured in a health care delivery system
- List functions of a good financial manager
- Discuss the principles of technology functioning and application to dental hygiene practice.
- Describe the basis for the selection of technology in a dental hygiene environment.
- Describe some current technology applications in clinical dental hygiene practice.
- Discuss the legal and thical issues of technology usage in dental hygiene practice.
- Recognize and apply the rights and duties in the patient-health care provider relationship.
- Describe key ethical principles and philosophies affecting healthcare.
- Identify the issues emphasized in a code of ethics for dental hygienists.
- Develop an awareness of ethical dilemmas encountered in the practice of ental hygiene.
- Recognize a theoretical framework to assit in ethical decision making.
- Describe the legal concepts and theories that apply to dental hygiene practice.
- Recognize methods to reduce risks within the practice of dental hygiene.
- Create an ethical framework which allows the student to sort through morally legitimate alternatives and develop an informed perspective for ethical decision-making in practice.
- Summarize the sources which guide moral reasoning within the profession such as code of ethics, standards of practice and quality assurance.
- Identify perspectives which force us to weigh personal and public interests against professional obligations as health care providers.
- State the ethical principles for guiding the ethic decision-making process.
- Describe a situation which constitutes an ethical dilemma.
- Discriminate among and between ethically legitimate courses of action.
- Given an ethical dilemma, apply components of a problem-solving model evaluating issues and approaching decision-making in a step by step rpocess to determine the ethically valid choice(s).
- Assume responsibility for making ethically valid decisions in practice.
- Evaluate methods of recognizing and eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace.
- Differentiate between sexism, sex discrimination, and sexual harassment.
- Identify the process for the legal determination of sexual harassment.
- Develop methods to stop unwelcome sexual behavior.
- Recognize a theoretical framework to assist in ethical decision making
- Describe the legal concepts and theories that apply to dental hygiene practice
- Develop an awareness of the legal concepts affecting the dental hygienist-client and dental hygienist- dentist relationship
- Recognize methods to reduce risks within the practice of dental hygiene
- Discuss the standard of skill and care in providing health and dental care.
- Discuss the concept of standards and criteria as applied to quality assurance.
- Describe the quality assurance cyle in terms of assessment, feedback to providers, corrective action, reporting on corrective action, and reporting to a responsible party.
- Describe quality assessment in terms of the assessment of structure, process and outcome, evaluation, and correction.
- Describe a situation which constitutes an ethical dilemma
- Discriminate among and between ethically legitimate courses of action
- Given an ethical dilemma, apply components of a problem-solving model evaluating issues and approaching decision-making in a step by step process to determine the ethically valid choice(s).
- Assume responsibility for making ethically valid decisions in practice
- Explain the concept of consumer advocacy and how it relates to the ethical duties owed to patients.
- Describe the evolution of quality assurance practices in oral healthcare.
- Discuss why public agencies, third parties, and employers have an incentive to evaluate the quality of healthcare.
- Discuss the following quality assurance mechanisms: client surveys; client complaints; on-site evaluations; treatment record audits; clinical examinations; utilization review and peer review; formal education requirements; accreditation standards; the acc
- Advocate quality assurance activities in the oral healthcare environment.
- View the field of qulaity assurance as a viable career direction for the dental hygienist.
- Interpret portions of Chapter 153-Code of Iowa that pertain to the practice of Dental Hygiene and Dentistry.
- Discuss the concept of standards and criteria as applied to quality assurance
- Differentiate among quality assurance, quality assessment, and quality assurance mechanisms
- Describe the quality assurance cycle in terms of assessment, feedback to providers, corrective action, reporting on corrective action, and reporting to a responsible party
- Describe quality assessment in terns of the assessment of structure, process and outcome, evaluation, and correction
- Summarize the “Rules and Regulations” established by the Iowa State board of Dental Examiners.
- Describe the evolution of quality assurance practices in oral healthcare
- Discuss why public agencies, third parties, and employers have an incentive to evaluate the quality of healthcare
- Discuss the following quality assurance mechanisms; client surveys; client complaints; on-site evaluations; treatment record audits; clinical examinations; utilization review and peer review; formal educational requirements; accreditation standards; the a
- Advocate quality assurance activities in the oral healthcare environment
- View the field of quality assurance as a viable career direction for the dental hygienist
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