Description

This is the definitive, up-to-date guide to ethics, jurisprudence, and practice management for all dental hygiene students, new graduates, and licensed practitioners. The authors first introduce codes of ethics; discuss how ethical principles and moral values influence society, individual, and the profession; and cover crucial ethics-related topics such as informed consent. Next, they turn to practice management, showing how the dental practice must operate as a small business, and offering thorough career coverage. This edition's extensive updates include: dental therapists and other alternative workforce models; regulatory changes; opportunities in forensics; comparisons with practice in Canada; and much more.

Features:

Thorough coverage of ethics, jurisprudence, and practice management—bringing together all the information dental hygienists need to succeed

• • Provides a single source for up-to-date knowledge about a broad range of essential practice-related topics in dental      hygiene

Clear chapter objectives—identifying exactly what students they will be learning

• • Guides students in focusing their reading

Key Terms—listed the beginning of each chapter, bolded and italicized in text, and explained in a glossary at the end of the book

• • Ensures that students understand the field's specialized terminology

Case Studies—presenting short scenarios that introduce and highlight chapter content, and may include specific tasks or applications

• • Connects the book's concepts to real-world practice

Critical Thinking questions—promoting classroom discussion and more thorough understanding

• • Enables students to achieve deeper insight, either on their own or working with their peers

New To This Edition:

New! Covers alternative workforce models, education programs and practice settings–including dental therapists, registered dental hygienists in alternative practice, collaborative practice, Maine's unsupervised practices, and more

• • Introduces students and working practitioners to new practice and career options that were never available to them      before

New! Discusses new trends in regulation–including changing regulation for supervision

• • Shows how new trends in government regulation are impacting practice and the practitioner

New! Covers forensics–discussing new opportunities in the profession of forensics in connection with catastrophes

• • Introduces a significant new opportunity for dental hygienists in the workforce

Updated! Includes updated instructor's manual and PowerPoints–designed to be flexible enough to support and improve any course

• • Gives instructors powerful new resources to save time and improve teaching effectiveness

New! Compares U.S. and Canadian dental hygiene practice–discussing Canada's approach to self-regulation

• • Gives students insights into how U.S. practice compares with other approaches

Expanded! Includes more coverage of practice management– including production goal setting, more business planning coverage, and leadership characteristics

• • Helps students build their own practices more successfully

 

Doody's Reviews

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Score/Specialty: 2.93 Health Sciences - Dental Auxiliaries

 

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