DNHY 1215 - Clinical Dental Hygiene I Credit Hours: 4.00 Prerequisites: Admission into the Dental Hygiene Program; DNHY 1112 , DNHY 1116 , DNHY 1117 , DNHY 1118 , DNHY 1119 , DNHY 1120 and DNHY 1121 all with grade of C or better
Corequisites: DNHY 1210 , DNHY 1212 , and DNHY 1214
This course enables students to apply the knowledge and skills learned to the dental hygiene process of care: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Students will provide preventative, therapeutic, and educational services to clinical patients in a supervised dental setting.
Billable Contact Hours: 7
When Offered: Winter semester only
Search for Sections Transfer Possibilities Michigan Transfer Network (MiTransfer) - Utilize this website to easily search how your credits transfer to colleges and universities. OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate proper infection prevention and control protocols.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate proper handwashing technique.
- Demonstrate use of proper PPE necessary for dental hygiene treatment procedures.
- Demonstrate proper PPE donning technique.
- Demonstrate proper PPE doffing technique.
- Demonstrate the proper method of operatory disinfection.
- Demonstrate applying operatory barriers.
- Demonstrate instrument disinfection and sterilization.
- Demonstrate use of proper PPE for disinfection and sterilization
Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to use basic instrumentation techniques.
Objectives:
- Identify the modified pen grasp.
- Identify intraoral fulcrum techniques.
- Identify the working-end of various dental hygiene instruments.
- Identify proper blade adaptation.
- Identify the three basic instrument stroke directions.
- Identify instruments for removal of biofilm.
- Identify instruments for removal of supragingival calculus.
- Identify instruments for removal of subgingival calculus.
- Identify the technique of rubber cup prophylaxis.
Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the range of working positions for the dental hygienist.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate common patient positions in the dental chair.
- Demonstrate common operator positions.
- Demonstrate common lighting positions.
- Demonstrate the scope of ergonomic dental hygiene.
Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to construct an individualized patient dental hygiene process of care.
Objectives:
- Interpret a patient’s relevant background information.
- Summarize clinical findings from patient assessments.
- Summarize the appropriate recare/maintenance sequence based on clinical findings and evaluation.
- Explain the importance of establishing patient goals.
- Identify interventions and outcomes to meet patient goals.
- Create a patient’s risk assessment.
- Create a patient’s needs assessment.
- Create dental hygiene process of care.
Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to use effective communication skills.
Objectives:
- Use effective oral communication skills.
- Use effective written skills.
- Use effective listening skills.
- Verbally summarize clinical findings from patient assessments.
- Create dental and medical patient referrals.
Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate how to obtain common patient assessments.
Objectives:
- Perform an oral-facial exam.
- Perform a gingival exam.
- Perform a periodontal exam.
- Perform obtaining a patient’s occlusion.
- Perform obtaining a patient’s blood pressure.
- Perform obtaining a patient’s pulse.
- Perform obtaining a patient’s respiration.
- Perform obtaining a patient’s temperature.
Outcome 7: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply instrumentation techniques on clinical patients.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate proper instrumentation selection based on patient needs.
- Demonstrate proper instrumentation based on instrument selection.
- Demonstrate proper adaptation of selected instrument.
- Demonstrate proper fulcruming for selected working area.
- Demonstrate proper scaling stroke for calculus removal.
- Demonstrate proper exploratory stroke for calculus detection.
Outcome 8: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to document dental hygiene care.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate the documentation of the oral-facial exam.
- Demonstrate the documentation of the gingival exam.
- Demonstrate the documentation of the periodontal exam.
- Demonstrate the documentation of occlusion.
- Demonstrate the documentation of blood pressure.
- Demonstrate the documentation of pulse rate.
- Demonstrate the documentation of respiration rate.
- Demonstrate the documentation of temperature.
- Demonstrate the documentation of a risk assessment.
- Demonstrate the documentation of a needs assessment.
Outcome 9: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to summarize the concepts related to ensuring confidentiality and privacy of patient information.
Objectives:
- Explain the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
- Explain the entities HIPAA applies to.
- Explain the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
- Explain the HIPAA Security Rule.
Outcome 10: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to summarize the importance of a safe working environment.
Objectives:
- Explain common medical emergencies that occur in the dental practice.
- Explain methods to prevent and/or manage common medical emergencies.
- Explain what health conditions and significant risk factors or risk indicators may impact the delivery of patient care and services.
COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES (CDO)
- Communication: The graduate can communicate effectively for the intended purpose and audience.
- Critical Thinking: The graduate can make informed decisions after analyzing information or evidence related to the issue.
- Global Literacy: The graduate can analyze human behavior or experiences through cultural, social, political, or economic perspectives.
- Information Literacy: The graduate can responsibly use information gathered from a variety of formats in order to complete a task.
- Quantitative Reasoning: The graduate can apply quantitative methods or evidence to solve problems or make judgments.
- Scientific Literacy: The graduate can produce or interpret scientific information presented in a variety of formats.
CDO marked YES apply to this course: Communication: YES Critical Thinking: YES Global Literacy: YES Information Literacy: YES Quantitative Reasoning: YES Scientific Literacy: YES
COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE 1: Orientation; Patient appointment procedures
2: Patient appointment procedures
3-16: Patient treatment Primary Faculty Kline, Lorene Secondary Faculty Spencer, Michelle Associate Dean Ellis, Barbara Dean Mirijanian, Narine
Primary Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088
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