CCOG for DH 236 Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- DH 236
- Course Title:
- Dental Hygiene Ethics and Law
- Credit Hours:
- 1
- Lecture Hours:
- 10
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Explores ethical and legal principles, and professional conduct specific to the dental hygiene practice. Reviews ethical dilemmas, patient rights, confidentiality, informed consent, and cultural competence. Promotes ethical decision-making, ethical practice and compassionate patient care.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:
- Apply the ADHA Code of Ethics, ethical principles, values, and social responsibility to dental hygiene practice.
- Articulate the Dental Practice Act for the state of Oregon.
- Apply the dental laws, rules, and regulations governing the delivery of dental hygiene care to the practice of dental hygiene.
- Recognize, explain and resolve ethical issues in theory and practice.
- Describe employment laws and benefits related to dental hygiene practice.
- Explain the professional relationship between the health care provider and the patient, specifically in terms of competence, fairness, integrity, responsibility, respect and service-mindedness.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Quizzes
Case Studies
Comprehensive final exam
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes and Concepts:
- Risk Management
- Ethics and Professionalism
- Ethical Theory and Philosophy
- Ethical Principles and Values
- Codes of Ethics
- Ethical Decision-Making in Dental Hygiene and Dentistry
- Social Responsibility
- Society and the State Dental Practice Act
- Dental Hygienist-Patient Relationship
- Dental Hygienist-Dentist-Employer Relationship
Skills:
- Ethical decision-making
- Legal compliance
- Patient advocacy
- Professional conduct
- Confidentiality/privacy
- Cultural competence
- Communication skills
- Documentation skills
- Risk management
- Conflict resolution
- Continuing education