DTA 1010 - Professional Orientation
Clock Hours: 10
Delivery Mode
on-ground
Course Description:
This course introduces the student to the dental profession and to the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Murfreesboro Dental Assisting Program. Each area of dentistry is studied so the student will be able to differentiate between the requirements, functions, responsibilities, and limitations of each member of the dental health team. Awareness to the field or dentistry, factors which have brought dentistry to recognition as a healing art and developed dental auxiliaries as an integral part of the profession is introduced to the dental assisting student. Basic definitions of professional ethics and dental jurisprudence are taught to aid the student until that unit in the sequence of instruction. The student will be oriented to Tennessee College of Applied Technology Murfreesboro and its Dental Assisting program, policies, and procedures.
Student Learning Outcomes:
UNIT #1 SCHOOL/DENTAL ASSISTING ORIENTATION
1. Demonstrate verbally the procedure for notifying the school of absence or late arrival for class.
2. Sign in whether absent or tardy on the sign in record in the DA Department.
3. Follow instructions, for fire and natural disaster alarms.
4. Follow department dress codes and hygiene guidelines.
5. Know to whom to report an emergency within the dental assisting department or on the campus.
6. Find in the school handbook the following information:
a. Student Personnel Services
b. General Student Information
c. Academic Policies
d. Attendance Requirements
e. Referral System
f. Withdrawal Procedure
7. Informed about:
a. The Right to Know Law
b. Infection control policy
c. Laboratory management of emergencies
d. Management of office emergencies
e. Hazards in Dentistry
UNIT #2 DENTISTRY IN THE UNITED STATES
1. Identify early developments and major contributors to dentistry from earliest known records of dental reference.
2. Identify the pioneers of dentistry, in outline form using the student text.
UNIT #3 THE DENTAL HEALTH TEAM
1. Describe the minimum educational requirements required in Tennessee for dentists, dental assistants, hygienists, and dental laboratory technicians.
2. Identify the correct usage of dentists and auxiliaries professional titles and degrees.
3. Identify basic functions of the dentist, dental assistant, hygienist, and dental laboratory technician as dental health team members.
4. Discuss licensure registration, and certification as applied to the dental health team members.
5. Identify the national constituent, and component professional organizations of each dental health team member.
6. Define the term expanded functions that may be assigned to dental auxiliaries.
7. Identify the status of the Certified Dental Assistant and the requirements to maintain that status in the profession.
UNIT #4 ETHICAL AND LEGAL PROVISIONS
1. Define or describe the following: ethics, jurisprudence; State Dental Practice Act; unlicensed practice of dentistry; respondent superior; regestae, malpractice; and reasonable skill, care, and judgment.
2. Discuss the Tennessee Dental Practice Act as it pertains to Dental Assistants.
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