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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Health Science
occupation category
Dental Hygienists
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Participates with dental team members and other health care professionals in the management and health promotion for all patients
- Implements the appropriate self-care intervention; adapts as necessary throughout future interventions
- Monitors patient comfort
- Conducts a comprehensive hard-tissue evaluation that includes the charting of existing conditions and oral habits, with intraoral photographs and radiographs that supplement the data
- Looks for sharps and equipment left behind inadvertently
- Wears gowns or lab coats that cover skin and personal clothing likely to become soiled with blood, saliva, or infectious material
- Obtains written informed consent from patient or caregiver
- Records legible, concise, and accurate information
- Replaces containers before they become overfilled
- Performs and records appropriate physical examination not limited to the head and neck cavity including an oral cancer screening, documentation of normal or abnormal findings, and assessment of the temporomandibular function
- Identifies and coordinates resources needed to facilitate comprehensive quality care (e.g., current technologies, pain management, adequate personnel, appropriate appointment sequencing, and time management)
- Cleans and heat sterilizes equipment between patient uses
- Practices within one's scope of competence, and consults with or refers to professional colleagues when indicated
- Applies principles of risk management including informed consent and appropriate record keeping in patient care
- Applies quality assurance, assessment, and improvement concepts identified by the practice and profession
- Presents and documents dental hygiene care plan to the patient/caregiver
- Wears gloves when in contact with blood, saliva, and mucous membranes is possible and replaces for each patient or as needed during procedure
- Establishes and maintains the patient record as an accurate and consistent legal document of patient encounters
- Follows-up as necessary with the patient (post-treatment instruction, pain management, self-care)
- Organizes equipment
- Identifies the need and/or performance of and recording of results of other diagnostic procedures and tests
- Identifies the signs and management of the symptoms of medical emergencies
- Identifies all needed dental hygiene interventions including change management, preventive services, treatment, and referrals
- Operates dental equipment
- Reviews and confirms the dental hygiene care plan with the patient/caregiver
- Applies principles of record keeping/documentation
- Communicates the dental hygiene diagnosis with patients or clients
- Ensures electronic communications meet HIPAA standards in order to protect confidentiality and prevent changing entries at a later date
- Records intraoral examination findings including but not limited to dental charting, periodontal examination and indices
- Visually inspects sharps containers for overfilling
- Analyzes and interprets all assessment data
- Collaborates and works effectively with the dentist and other health care providers and community-based oral health programs to provide high-level, patient-centered care
- Transports reusable sharps in a closed, labeled container
- Initiates necessary medical and/or dental consultation or referral in legal media to clarify questions related to the patient's dental and systemic health
- Establishes patient dialogue to obtain demographic, medical, family and dental histories, psychological and socioeconomic information relevant to dental hygiene care; and patient expectations and goals for dental hygiene care
- Establishes patient dialogue to obtain and record the chief complaint of the patient and the history of the present illness
- Obtains, records, updates and organizes accurate and complete medical/dental histories including pertinent psychological and socioeconomic information
- Determines patient needs that can be improved through the delivery of dental hygiene care
- Formulates the dental hygiene diagnosis or diagnoses
- Implements the plan beginning with the mutually agreed upon first prioritized intervention
- Ensures adequate lighting
- Checks procedure trays and waste materials for exposed sharps before handling
- Delivers and/or manages the planned dental hygiene evidence-based treatment and education in sequence and in accordance with accepted Standards of Care
- Ensures compliance with the federal Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Provides any necessary post-treatment instruction
- Identifies patient's record including but not limited to medication(s), potential effect(s) on dental and systemic health, and impact on dental treatment
- Utilizes current infection control guidelines for all clinical procedures
- Identifies referrals needed within dentistry and other healthcare disciplines based on dental hygiene diagnosis
- In collaboration with the patient and/or caregiver, prioritize and sequence the interventions allowing for flexibility if necessary and possible
- Follows ethical and legal responsibilities of recordkeeping including guidelines outlined in state regulations and statutes
- Communicates the plan for dental hygiene care to interdisciplinary health team members to determine its congruence with the overall plan for oral health care
- Modifies the plan as necessary and obtains any additional consent
- Counsels and educates the patient and/or caregiver about the treatment rationale, risks, benefits, anticipated outcomes, evidence-based treatment alternatives, and prognosis
- Documents all components of the dental hygiene process of care (assessment, dental hygiene diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation) including the purpose of the patient's visit in the patient's own words
- Removes gloves after patient care and performs hand hygiene immediately
- Identifies the signs of physical, psychological, verbal and substance abuse
- Performs risk assessments
- Records all information and interactions between the patient and the practice (e.g., telephone calls, emergencies, prescriptions) including patient failure to return for treatment or follow through with recommendations
- Follows manufacturer's instructions to safely reprocess dental handpieces and accessories (e.g., low-speed motor, reusable prophylaxis angles)
- Evaluates and integrates emerging trends in health care and determines their value in dental hygiene practice
- Determines priorities and establishes oral health goals with the patient and/or family and/or guardian
- Plans treatments that reflects the impact of behavioral, social and cultural differences in the provision of dental health care
- Applies business and practice management skills to ensure business and practice are reputable and profitable
- Secures the container to prevent spilling contents
- Evaluates and applies contemporary and emerging information including clinical and practice management technology resources
- Confirms the plan for continuing care or maintenance
- Records the final dental hygiene care plan
