Dr. Sim graduated dental school at Oklahoma University. He finished another year of the Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) Program at Wichita State University that offers the opportunity for advanced comprehensive clinical experience. He started his first job at Smart Teeth dentistry in town after he received training. My first major was dental hygiene before health science. So I have been working as a volunteer in the Smart Teeth for several months because I want to gain experience at the medical field. After a long period of monitoring, I was considered a competent dentist. Now he became my family’s dentist. Last year he has opened his own practice, he is located at Harry and Greenwich. When I asked for shadowing permission, he…
After doing an assessment on my client, I felt very sympathetic for her with her diagnosis. My client stated that she was trying all of the methods that the hygienist had recommended for her over the past years. The client has been fighting with a habit that she has numerous times tried to quit, but was unsuccessful. From her habit, her oral tissue and healing will continue to delay until she is ready to quit or seeks professional help. I let my client know that I understood her frustration and informed her that we are here to help or that she would want to seek medical help from her…
Dental Hygienists do more than clean teeth. There are seven professional roles in the profession of dental hygiene. These roles include educator, researcher, entrepreneur, administrator, advocate, clinician, and public health. The role of a dental hygienist as an educator is to teach oral health professionals using educational theory and methodology. As a clinician, dental hygienists work together with health professionals to provide patient care. Examples of employment include working at a school, hospital, or long-term facilities (Wilkins et al., 2017).…
Thank you for a great post. As a hygienist, I can see that we will keep on learning for the rest of our lives. It is great that you have a mentor to help you learn and fit into the new work environment. I do believe that it is important to be open minded and adapt to different environment because as hygienist, we see a lot of patients in one day and we have to learn about them as a whole to be able to give them the best treatment. I also believe that we can always learn something new and it is critical for us to stay on top of all the current information.…
From pediatric patients to geriatric patients, respiratory diseases and disorders can affect a variety of patients. Many of which cause lower respiratory rates and drug interactions that can compromise routine dental treatment and even elicit medical emergencies. A hygienist should not only have the knowledge to treat a respiratory emergency but also how to prevent one. Respiratory diseases can be divided into upper and lower respiratory diseases, some requiring more precautions than others. It is important to know the general characteristics of both types and the problems they present to receiving dental treatment. This paper is indicated to discuss the identification, precaution, and treatment of patients with respiratory diseases most commonly seen in a dental setting.…
I the practice I work for, there are two locations and each has one hygienist. I work at the Clearwater office and the other hygienist at the Tarpon office. To ensure inter-observer reliability in dental hygiene diagnosis, both office has the same types of instruments. I have to say, before I started working there, the office had old and not uniform instruments. It took me about five months to build up the armamentarium in my office. Now, each instrument kit has Metal UNC12 metal probes that I use for periodontal probing. Tarpon office started using the same type of instruments as well. Sometimes we have patients migrating between the two offices and it is important to ensure that probing is performed using the same technique (6 reading around…
Dental hygienist win a good fair amount of money because they have to teach oral health to each of their patients that way they keep their patients away from diseases. A dental hygienist wins $75.000 a year and makes $33.00 per hour and can raise up due to experience. A dental hygienist usually treat children oral health because kids can be irresponsible and not brushing their teeth, so a dental hygienist teaches a child how to brush and have a healthy smile.…
A registered dental hygienist not only cleans, examines, and provide preventive care but they also educate. The career also allows for other career paths. This includes, private practice as a clinician being the most popular work place for the dental hygienist, a corporate office, public health, researcher, educator, administrator, and or entrepreneur. Each career option varies in education requirements. The options for education includes an associates that's the most common, bachelors, and a masters. According to bls.gov, "Employment of dental hygienists is projected to grow 19 percent from 2014 to 2024, much faster than the average for all occupations.…
Within the workplace, whether this is a Care Home or Individual's homes, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) must be worn. This must be worn to prevent infections from one individual to another. When in contact with a individual, gloves and aprons must be worn. If the individual is suffering from a virus then mouths can be protected with masks to. After caring for one individual, the PPE is then removed and appropriately thrown away before contact with anyone else. New PPE for a new person. PPE is also used for dealing with food and once again renewed if dealing with different types of food etc.…
Now with 675 SSDs, the distribution reach of WICS would be = (585*675)/5500 = $71.79 Million…
A common career that has to do with pneumatic systems is a pneumatic technician. A pneumatic technician maintains and repairs systems that use air to carry power between places, a pneumatic system. The technician makes sure that all parts of the system are in check and fulfilling their task in the system to their highest ability. If anything is broken, damaged, or malfunctioning, it is up to the pneumatic technician to fix the problem immediately. Pneumatic technicians also may deal with hydraulics in their job as well as just pneumatics because the two are so similar with each other.…
Our health workforce was described as dysfunctional in public and private health workforce policy and infrastructure putting the health of Americans at risk. Could it be the lack of integrated education and teamwork from those that are involved in the care of our patients? Health care professionals are educated in differing schools of thought. If there were overlapping curricula and raining requirements integrating their training there would be both advantages and disadvantages involved.…
Explore the statement - A Paramedic is a health care professional operating autonomously and independently within the Australian Health Care System.…
-General care, cleanliness, orderliness, and maintenance of business or property. Good housekeeping is an important consideration in underwriting of fire hazard and other forms of insurance, as well as in certification by fire, health, and industrial safety agencies.…
As industrial sickness is an umbrella term applied to various things associated with industry that make people ill and cause them to miss work.…