DENH 410 Evidence-Based Dental Hygiene Practice
This course involves learning and implementing evidence-based decision making principles. The dental hygiene practitioner will value the integration of clinical expertise and available current external evidence from research. Emphasis is on strategy, methodology, and research design with clinical focus on dental hygiene standards of care, process of care, and dental hygiene diagnosis as related to clinical and community dental hygiene practice. Attention is given to health equity, to include emphasis on cultural competence, racism and health literacy.
Prerequisites: Admitted to the Baccalaureate Degree Completion Program in Dental Hygiene. Special permission by Dental Hygiene Department Coordinator. Prior to registering for this course you must have successfully completed STATS 201 or its equivalent.
Prerequisites
Special information
3 Undergraduate credits
Effective August 23, 2008 to present
Learning outcomes
General
- Integrate findings from evidence-based research into clinical practice and patient care.
- Relate evidence-based decision making to dental and dental hygiene standards of care, process of care, and dental hygiene diagnosis.
- Review dental and dental hygiene research with ethical, legal, economic, political, and multicultural issues in mind.
- Select research techniques appropriate to the investigation of dental issues.
- Understand research strategy, methodology, and design.
- Apply the concept of evidence-based dentistry.
- Practice evidence-based decision making.
- Critically evaluate current dental research recognizing applicability to clinical dental hygiene care.
- Write a formal research critique.
- Compose a research-based paper addressing a specific dental or dental hygiene clinical question.
Fall 2024
| Section | Title | Instructor | books | eservices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | Evidence-Based Dental Hygiene Practice | Jordan, Andrea L | Books for DENH-410-50 Fall 2024 | Course details for DENH-410-50 Fall 2024 |