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COURSE SYLLABUS 1. TITLE OF COURSE: CLINICAL PRACTICE OF DENTAL HYGIENE II PREFIX/NUMBER: DEH 270 CREDIT HOURS: 4-7 2. PREREQUISITE: Successful Completion of DEH 124 3. RESOURCES NEEDED: TEXT: Wilkins, Esther M., Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist, 9th Ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2005 SUPPLIES: Clinical instruments and supplies as purchased for original student kit; kept in appropriate working condition or replaced as needed, and available for use. Only Dental Hygiene Program-approved equipment may be used in the school dental hygiene clinic. 4. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Covers patient care sessions for the performance of traditional dental hygiene treatment. Continues and expands periodontal patient care and special patient care sessions. Focuses on clinical competence in margination and polishing of restorations, nutrition counseling, oral irrigation, chemotherapeutics and OSHA compliance. 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 ATTENDANCE AND PEER REPORTS = 10 % GRADING SCALE 93 - 100% A 85 - 92% B 77 - 84% C 69 - 76% D 0 - 68% F Special Remarks: A. Attendance: Attendance is mandatory for all clinics and seminar. 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 policies and consequences are outlined in the Program Handbook. 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.
COURSE SYLLABUS
TEXT:
Wilkins, Esther M., Clinical Practice of the Dental
Hygienist, 9th Ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
Philadelphia, 2005
SUPPLIES:
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.
CA duties, time use, patient management, teamwork and professionalism
GRADING SCALE
93 - 100%
A
85 - 92%
B
77 - 84%
C
69 - 76%
D
0 - 68%
F
Special Remarks:
A.
Attendance: Attendance is mandatory for all clinics and seminar. 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 policies and consequences are outlined in the Program Handbook.
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.
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.