Florida & AGD PACE Approved Dental Hygienist CE Package - 28 Credit Hours
Tracking # 20-802248
$79.00
What you'll learn
At the end of this package, licensees will be able to:
Geriatric Patients for Dental Professionals
- Consider the physical characteristics and medical history of the older adult patient during the initial assessment
- Describe common medical emergency protocols
- Recognize the value of communication between dental and medical teams
Human Trafficking: Florida Requirement
- Discuss the prevalence of human trafficking within the United States
- Describe common forms and venues of human trafficking
- Identify common misconceptions regarding human trafficking
- Identify risk factors that may contribute to someone becoming a victim of human trafficking
- Describe common tactics used by perpetrators of human trafficking to recruit victims
- Describe the various stages of the human trafficking process
- Understand how to document findings from victims of human trafficking
Domestic Violence: The Dental Practitioner's Fight
- Define domestic violence
- Describe the various categories of domestic violence
- Identify underlying motivating factors that contribute to domestic violence
- Describe the prevalence of domestic violence in the United States
Oral Health in Pregnant Patients
- Discuss the systemic changes that occur to a woman's body during pregnancy
- Review the common oral health concerns that often present during pregnancy
- Analyze the needed modifications to medication prescribing to pregnant mothers
- Review the most important modifications to dental treatments for pregnant patients
Hypersensitivity
- Discuss the prevalence of dentinal hypersensitivity and common contributing factors
- Explain the hydrodynamic theory, widely accepted as the cause for dentinal sensitivity
- Discuss common diagnostic tools
- List common ingredients used in at-home and in-office desensitizing products
Oral Infections
- Explain a variety of host defense systems and basic mechanisms of microbiology
- List common odontogenic infections and their origins
- Identify treatments for specific oral and maxillofacial bacterial infections
Common Dental Medical Errors
- Define an adverse event
- Explain the importance of near misses in preventing future medical errors
- Define a sentinel event
- Explain how errors are analyzed and the role of Root Cause Analysis in this process
Oral Effects of Tobacco Use
- Describe how alternative tobacco products can affect oral health
- Describe the types of screenings used to detect oral health conditions in patients who smoke
- Identify steps that dental professionals can take to help patients stop smoking
Course overview
**Licensees must complete all courses in this bundle to get credit.** The Florida Dental Hygienist CE package includes 28 contact hours required by the Florida Board of Dentistry for Dental Hygienist license renewal. Courses included in this package are Geriatric Patients, Domestic Violence, Oral Health in Pregnant Patients, Hypersensitivity, Oral Infections, Dental Medical Errors, and Oral Effects of Tobacco Use. This online course can be conveniently completed from your computer or mobile device at your own pace. Your course completion will be reported to CE Broker automatically for credit toward your license renewal.
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
Florida Board of Dentistry
Dental Hygienist
Disclosure statements
Licensees must complete all courses in this bundle to get credit.
At the end of this package, licensees will be able to:
- Geriatric Patients for Dental Professionals - (5 Hours)
- Human Trafficking: Florida Requirement - (2 Hours)
- Domestic Violence: The Dental Practitioner's Fight - (2 Hours)
- Oral Health in Pregnant Patients - (2 Hours)
- Hypersensitivity - (5 Hours)
- Oral Infections - (6 Hours)
- Common Dental Medical Errors - (2 Hours)
- Oral Effects of Tobacco Use - (2 Hours)
- Sedation and Anesthesia Protocols and Updates for Dentists - (2 Hours)
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