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COURSE SYLLABUS

 

1.         TITLE OF COURSE:     Clinical Practice of Dental Hygiene 1-A                   

            PREFIX/NUMBER:        DEH 171               CREDIT HOURS: 1 - 8               

 

2.         PREREQUISITES:         Current Enrollment in Dental Hygiene Program

 

3.         RESOURCES NEEDED:

                         TEXT:             ADA Chairside Instructor Booklet, American Dental Association.

                                                                       

                         SUPPLIES:     All instruments and equipment in the standard clinic issue available and in good condition.  PCC – Clinic Manual, PCC – Proficiency Sheets.

 

4.         COURSE

            DESCRIPTION:          Continues patient care sessions for the performance of traditional dental hygiene treatment. Enables the student to provide treatment to periodontally involved patients utilizing advanced instrumentation and power scaling.

 

4.         COURSE GOAL:        To provide the dental hygiene student with additional supervised patient care sessions, with increased emphasis on treatment planning, identification of factors involved in the progress and treatment of periodontal disease, the use of the ultrasonic scaling device, the development of definitive debridement skills, and the increased opportunity to treat patients with more advanced periodontal disease involvement. 

 

5.         COURSE
            OBJECTIVES:            A detailed list of course descriptions will be given at the beginning of the
                                               first class.

       

6.   EVALUATION PROCEDURES:  

                   GRADING SCALE:

 

                   A      93-100

                   B      92-85

                   C     77-84

                   D     69-76

                   F     68-0       

 

Special Remarks:

 

ATTENDANCE:  Attendance is mandatory for all clinics.  If a patient is not available for the clinic 
     session, the student is still required to attend clinic and report in with
     the assigned clinical faculty.  

 

Attendance is required in all dental hygiene classes (didactic, laboratory and clinic).  It is the student’s responsibility to arrive on time and be prepared for class.

 

The attendance policy of the Dental Hygiene Program will be the same as Pueblo Community Colleges' with the following additions:

 

§                Any absence must be reported to the program secretary by 8:00 a.m. Absences
    and tardies are tracked by the program secretary.

 

§                If any absence occurs during a scheduled test or examination, the student will
    receive an automatic 0. Only extenuating circumstances will be considered for
    make-up and must receive approval from the Department Chair.

 

§               Extended absences for emergency circumstances will be dealt with on an individual 
   basis.

 

§              More than two absences will result in the lowering of a full letter grade.

 

§             Three or more tardies are equal to one absence.

 

                  §  If 20 or more percent of a lecture or laboratory class is missed, the student will
                           receive a failing grade.  

 

                  §  Clinic time cannot be made up.

  

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.

 

DISABILITY STATEMENT: 

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.