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You Work as a Dental Hygienist in a School-Based Health

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You work as a dental hygienist in a school-based health center in a public high school (grades 9 through 12) . The health clinic is staffed by you, a dental assistant, a dentist, a nurse practitioner, a health educator, a school nurse, a social worker, a mental health counselor, a nutritionist, and a sports medicine specialist. In addition to having the health clinic available, students are required to take a health class for 4 weeks in ninth grade. In the last few months, parents and teachers have reported increased use of smokeless tobacco, cigarettes, and e-cigarettes by students outside the school grounds. The principal has asked the health center team to address the problem of increased use of tobacco products.
-The first team meeting is to be a discussion about conducting a more comprehensive needs assessment. All of the following activities EXCEPT one are appropriate for the needs assessment process. Which one is the EXCEPTION?


A) Discuss what motivates teens to use various tobacco products according to the current research evidence
B) Discuss what approaches can be used in the health center to encourage teens to quit using tobacco products
C) Identify specific groups of teens that seem to be at higher risk for use of each of the tobacco products of concern
D) Brainstorm ways to identify which teens are using each tobacco product of concern

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