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Dental Hygiene Process of Care 1 (46:00)
This video reviews historical origin and current role of dental hygiene profession, discusses the current dental hygiene framework for standard of practice process of care, reviews all the assessment components, and helps recognize the dynamic nature of assessment phase and its impact on care plan and implementation.
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Dental Hygiene Process of Care 2 (37:00)
This video helps one understand the relevance of data collection and correlate findings to process of care diagnosis, discusses care planning and the value of written care plan with key components, the implementation of care including referral and interdisciplinary collaboration, and the evaluation and success measures with documentation.
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Dental Hygienist (22:36)
he job of the dental hygienist, or DH, is just as hands-on as any dentist’s—and it offers an outstanding springboard for a career in the health care and dental fields. This program shows what a DH can expect as far as training, duties, and compensation, while outlining the personal qualities and people skills that any successful DH should possess. Featuring interviews with experienced hygienists and those who train them, the program highlights the cleaning and examination procedures a DH will perform and the special rapport he or she must be able to establish with patients. Students are advised to prepare for a DH career by excelling in high school biology courses and volunteering at clinics and hospitals. A viewable/printable instructor’s guide is available online. Correlates to national and state board certification standards.
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Oral Health Counseling (46:00)
This video discusses statistics on non-compliance behaviours, describes barriers to patient self-care, discusses the hygienists' role, helps one understand health professionals' communication strategies, understand patients' experiences of the learning process, evaluates patient education models based on suitability of patient's learning needs, and provides differentiated instruction for patients' individualized learning needs.
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