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Prospective Students
Continuing Education
Dental Clinic Clients
Describing Oral Lesions and Barriers to Oral Cancer Screenings
What our students say about this course:
"I really liked the small classroom size and personal feeling you get in the lectures, as well as the opportunity to participate"Designed and Delivered by an Accredited Program
| Cost: | $89.00 | |||||||||
| Instructor: | Janet Aquilina-Arnold, RDH | |||||||||
| ID: | CR005, CR006 |
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| Goal of course: | This course will increase documentation skills when oral lesions are discovered. It will also touch on barriers to implementing oral cancer screenings in the office and how to overcome these barriers | |||||||||
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| Course Description: | Describing Oral Lesions is designed to increase documentation skills when oral lesions are discovered. We will discuss the DH process of care, review common lesion descriptors, and consider dental hygiene referral pathways. Case studies will provide opportunity to work through a step-wise process of formulating clinical descriptions for appropriate documentation and professional communications. The second component of this course, Transforming Theory into Practice, is designed to empower participants to implement oral cancer screening exams into routine clinical practice. We will identify barriers to performing the exams, discuss strategies to overcome them, and practice hands-on skills in a peer-supported collaborative environment. | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes: | Learning Outcomes – A: 1. Implement the ADPIE dental hygiene process of care into clinical practice. 2. Utilize Darby and Walsh’s Human Needs conceptual model in developing dental hygiene diagnoses. 3. Critically consider various components of accurate lesion assessment and documentation. 4. Document oral lesions accurately using consistent and commonly used descriptions, and write an inter-disciplinary referral letter. Learning Outcomes - B: 1. Apply a step-wise ethical decision-making model. 2. Recognize and overcome barriers to the inclusion of oral cancer screening as part of routing clinical dental hygiene practice. 3. Recognize the need for behaviour change, and apply the Transtheoretical Model as a strategy to overcome behaviour-related barriers leading to long-term changes in practice behaviours. 4. Implement effective conflict resolution styles and strategies. 5. Perform effective oral cancer screening exams (i.e., intra/extra-oral exams) with confidence. |
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