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COURSE SYLLABUS

1. TITLE OF COURSE: ETHICS AND PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
  PREFIX/NUMBER: DEH 221 CREDIT HOURS: 2
2. PREREQUISITE: Successful progress in the DH Program curriculum
3. RESOURCES NEEDED:  
 

TEXT:

“Ethics Jurisprudence and Practice Management” by Vickie J. Kimbrough   and Charla J. Lautar., 2nd edition. 
 

SUPPLIES:

 
4. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Focuses on the transition from an educational environment to a working dental business. Enables the student to learn management skills of operating a dental office. Emphasizes opportunities for self-exploration in development of personal and professional goals. Examines professional ethics, legal issues, and the relationship to the licensed practice of dental hygiene.
5. COURSE GOAL:

Patient care sessions continue with traditional dental hygiene treatment.  Periodontal patient care and special patient care sessions are continued and expanded.   Clinical competence in margination and polishing of restorations, nutrition counseling, applied chemotherapeutics, OSHA compliance and advanced ultrasonics is developed through seminar / lecture / case study and patient treatment sessions.

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

Grade calculated as follows:

Instrumentation (Patient Treatment Grades)  55%
Radiographs  15 %
Completion of Misc. Requirements  10 %
Perio Cases  5 %
Seminar Quizzes  10 %
CA duties, time use, patient management, teamwork and professionalism    5 %
ATTENDANCE AND PEER REPORTS  = 10 %
    Professional Philosophy Statement 5%
   

Employment Agreement (the ideal job)   

5%
   

Oral Presentation on Careers

 5%
    All Pop Quizzes Total 5%
    Legal/Ethical Challenge Case 20 %
    Professional Resume 20%
Quiz #1 (Ethics) 10 %
Quiz #2 (Jurisprudence) 10 %
    Quiz #3 (Practice Management) 10%
Attendance and Participation 10 %

Special Remarks:

A.

Attendance Statment:  Timely and consistent attendance is critical to progress in all-professional courses.  This course especially draws upon class discussion to illuminate many of the critical concepts to be mastered.  Therefore, as per the policies of Pueblo Community College and the Dental Hygiene program, the third absence from class will result in a lowering of the course grade one-letter grade.  Make up of exams due to absence on scheduled test dates will be allowed with an automatic 5 % penalty.

Late Work:  There will be a 1% penalty per day for all late assignments turned in after the due date.  After one week a 0 will be counted for that assignment, however, the assignment must still be completed.

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.