Deck 1: The Dental Hygiene Profession

Question 1

An administrator or manager:

A) Is a person whose official position is to guide and direct the work of others
B) Does not provide clinical care
C) Usually does not engage in decision making
D) Engages in planning,organizing,and staffing only

Answer 1

Is a person whose official position is to guide and direct the work of others

Question 2

The Collaborative Practice Model primarily emphasizes which of the following?

A) The concept of multiple categories of dental hygiene care
B) The role of the dental hygienist as a public health educator
C) Dental hygienists working with other healthcare providers to provide optimum client care
D) The role of the dental hygienist as a dental auxiliary

Answer 2

Dental hygienists working with other healthcare providers to provide optimum client care

Question 3

The professional model of dental hygiene emphasizes that the dental hygienist:

A) Implements preventive treatment plans developed by the dentist
B) Views the dental hygienist as a secondary care provider
C) Is technology based
D) Implements self-generated preventive oral care regimens

Answer 3

Implements self-generated preventive oral care regimens

Question 4

The five roles of the dental hygienist are which of the following?

A) Periodontal clinician,pedantic clinician,researcher,change agent,advocate
B) Clinician,theory builder,educator,researcher,change agent
C) Clinician,administrator or manager,researcher,advocate,educator
D) Clinician,administrator,manager,educator,researcher

Question 5

Which of the following is not one of the central concepts in the paradigm for the discipline of dental hygiene?

A) Client
B) Environment
C) Health and oral health
D) Patient
E) Dental hygiene actions

Question 6

A well-constructed PICO question includes which of the following four parts?

A) Client problem,implementation,clinical context,outcome
B) Plan,implementation,clinician,outcome
C) Client problem,intervention,comparison,and outcome
D) Problem,client,intervention,outcome

Question 7

The term "client" is frequently preferred in healthcare settings for which of the following reasons?

A) It connotes wellness as well as illness and suggests an active participant in healthcare.
B) It suggests a sick,dependent person who is in need of therapy.
C) It is limited to an individual.
D) It focuses on the control of the clinician.

Question 8

Dental practice acts:

A) Do not establishes criteria for dental hygiene education or licensure
B) Are laws established in each state (United States)or province (Canada)to regulate the practice of dental hygiene
C) Are limited in terms of defining dental hygiene practice
D) All of the above

Question 9

Accreditation:

A) Is a formal,voluntary,nongovernmental process that establishes a minimum set of standards to ensure quality in educational institutions
B) Serves as a mechanism to protect the public
C) Requires descriptions of all tasks that a beginning dental hygiene practitioner must consistently perform accurately and efficiently
D) All of the above

Question 10

Which of the following best defines dental hygiene as a discipline?

A) A dental hygienist is a licensed,professional,oral health educator and clinician,who,as a co-therapist with the dentist,uses preventive,educational,and therapeutic methods for the control of oral diseases to aid individuals and groups in attaining and maintaining optimum oral health.
B) Dental hygiene is the study of preventive oral healthcare,including the management of behaviors,to prevent oral disease and promote health.

Question 11

As an advocate,the dental hygienist does which of the following?

A) Facilitates client decision making by providing clients with the information they need and by interpreting what the clients' rights are in a given situation
B) Protects clients from possible adverse effects of treatment measures
C) Demonstrates support and respect for the client's decision
D) All of the above

Question 12

Evidence-based decision making:

A) Considers evidence alone as sufficient to make a clinical decision
B) Maintains that the use of current best evidence does not replace clinical expertise or input from the client
C) Considers scientific evidence as the key component in the decision-making process
D) Considers evidence only from randomized controlled trials

Question 13

The highest level of evidence for evidence-based decision making is which of the following?

A) In vitro (test tube)research
B) Case reports
C) Randomized controlled trials
D) Meta-analysis and systematic reviews

Question 14

The vocational model of dental hygiene:

A) Prepares dental hygienists to improve dental hygiene care through the advancement of dental hygiene theory
B) Is based on the mentorship of a dentist
C) Views the dental hygienist as a primary care provider
D) Supports unsupervised dental hygiene practice to increase public access to oral healthcare