DHYG 418 Service Learning & Special Populations (2 credits)
Course Description
Acquaints the student with the psychosocial and physical changes in the aging process and of special needs patients. Explores how these changes relate to oral health services in institutional, assisted-living, and family-centered settings. Further develops the dental hygienist as an integral member of the global healthcare team through participation in service learning experiences for special needs population cohorts.
Course Content
Regional, state, and national laws and policies regarding provision of oral health care for geriatric and people with disabilities.
Considerations for oral healthcare professionals in diagnosing and treating geriatric and special needs populations: physical, intellectual, developmental/acquired, medical, social, psychological, and other special needs and/or marginalized populations.
Barriers and solutions for geriatric and persons with disabilities in providing oral healthcare services and treatment: access, language, socio-economic, cultural, environmental, psychological, and intellectual.
Disabling characteristics and conditions: etiology incidence and prevalence, medical and dental treatment guidelines, and communication protocols.
Alternations to care due to acute and chronic medical conditions.
Considerations and communication with caregivers of geriatric and special needs populations, including informed consent.
Community agencies.
Health networks.
Healthcare professionals of oral health services for geriatric and special needs populations.
Wheelchair transfer techniques.
Other communication and treatment modifications for meeting special needs populations.
Oral self-care practice design and modifications for geriatric, special needs populations, and other marginalized populations.
Inter-professional collaboration.
Intra-professional collaborations.
Modifications for individual patient oral health instruction in special needs populations.
Modifications for clinical care.
Student Outcomes
- Evaluate federal, state, and regional regulations and services for geriatric and individuals with disabilities.
- Assess oral health management and services of geriatric, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized and special needs population.
- Differentiate special needs population’s oral health management for geriatric, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized populations.
- Demonstrate wheelchair transfers and other modifications for performing dental hygiene therapies.
- Communicate oral health needs to the caregivers and members of special populations.
- Evaluate acute and chronic medical conditions, developmental and acquired disabilities.
- Analyze service learning projects and research focused on special needs populations.
Degree Outcomes
This course is part of the Bachelor Science in Applied Science in Dental Hygiene Degree. Please refer to the Dental Hygiene Competency Map for detail of the Program Competencies this course addresses. Each competency is identified at a level of skill by the terms Introductory (I), Developing (D), or Competent (C). The map also shows the alignment between each Program Competency and the Pierce College Core Ability(ies). Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations. Information Competency: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.
Core Abilities
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Lecture Contact Hours 20
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20
Potential Methods
Class discussion
Written assignments
Oral presentations
Research project
Written report
Service learning experiences
Self-evaluations
Peer-evaluations
ePortfolio
Clinical AIS Evaluation Criteria
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