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COURSE SYLLABUS

1. TITLE OF COURSE: APPLIED PHARMACOLOGY
  PREFIX/NUMBER: DEH 132 CREDIT HOURS: 2
2. PREREQUISITE: Currently enrolled in Dental Hygiene Program at PCC
3. RESOURCES NEEDED:  
 

TEXT:

Requa-Clark, Barbara, Applied Pharmacology for the Dental Hygienist, 4th ed., St. Louis, C. V. Mosby Co., 2000.

 

 

SUPPLIES:

 

4. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Covers general pharmacology and reviews drugs that may influence the management of dental hygiene patients. Enables the student to develop sufficient knowledge of pharmacology to permit safe and effective medical evaluation of patients for dental hygiene treatment.
5. COURSE GOAL:

The course in applied pharmacology will cover basic general pharmacology principles, but will stress the review of drugs that may influence the management of dental hygiene patients. The end point of this course is not to have the student prescribe medications.  The end point is to have the student develop the ability to safely and effectively evaluate the medical status of dental hygiene patients; in particular, how the patient’s medical condition and/ or medications will effect treatment.

6. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
  Students will be given a detailed list of course/instructional objectives on the first day of class.
7. EVALUATION PROCEDURES:
 

Written examinations covering units of academic instruction presented during the course (plus any unannounced quizzes and/or homework assignments) will constitute 75% of the final course grade.  A final examination will constitute 25% of the final course grade.

  *Attendance may be used to modify your final course grade.

    Please see your Dental Hygiene Program Student Handbook concerning     “Attendance Policy”.

   

GRADING SCALE

 

93 - 100%

A

85 -  92%

B

77 - 84%

C

69 - 76%

D

0 - 68%

F

 

   

 
   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

Special Remarks:

A.

Attendance:  Will be required for all classes with more than two absences resulting in the lowering of the final grade by grade level.

B.

Tardy Policy:  A student who is late three times (enters classroom after instruction begins) or leaves early (before instruction is over) will be charged with one full absence.

8. COURSE OUTLINE:
See instructor on the first day of class for a detailed course outline.
9. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
  The very nature of higher education requires that students adhere to accepted standards of academic integrity. Therefore, Pueblo Community College has adopted a policy of academic conduct as described in the Student Handbook. Violation of academic integrity may be defined to include the following: cheating, plagiarism, falsification and fabrication, abuse of academic materials, complicity in academic dishonesty, and personal misrepresentation. It is the student’s responsibility to be aware of the behaviors that constitute academic dishonesty. Sanctions for violating the standards of academic integrity may include warning, probation, suspension, and/or failure of the course or assignment at the discretion of the instructor.
10. ADA NOTICE:
  Students who have a documented disability may be eligible to receive accommodations for this class. Please contact the Disability Resources Center at 549-3446 for further information.