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Professional Issues I Final Exam Review1. List the four committees of CDHBC. - ANSWER-1. Registration Committee
2. Inquiry Committee
3. Discipline Committee
4. Quality Assurance Committee
5. Special Committee
75 CC credits per _______________ year cycle. - ANSWER-5 years
Analytic Cross-Sectional Study - ANSWER-ex. To study a presumed inverse
relationship between black tea consumption and cardiovascular disease, investigators
randomly selected a sample of 13, 500 subjects, 50 -64 years of age and queried them
about tea consumption and current treatment for cardiovascular disease. No significant
association as found between.
Analytic Ecological Study - ANSWER-o multiple group comparison studies, time trend
studies, and mixed studies
o groups are defined by geographical areas
Analytic Studies - ANSWER-o studies which provide information about association of
risk attributes
o aimed at helping to establish risks and causality
Animal Research - ANSWER-o Testing through animals
o Weak because their results are often impossible to generalize to humans
Autonomy - ANSWER-• Ability to be self-governing
• Based on the principle of respect for persons.
• Individuals have the right to make their own judgments based on their own
evaluations.
• Recognizing autonomy occurs when the DH involves the client in decision making and
obtains informed consent.
Beneficence - ANSWER-• The principle of promoting what is kind, good, & charitable
• Promotes benefits
• Prevention of harm
• A professional is responsible for contributing to the health and welfare of others.
British Columbia Dental Hygiene Association (BCDHA) - ANSWER-• Our provincial
association
• Formed in 1964
• Collaborates with government, the provincial dental hygiene regulatory body and
clients to effectively serve members and the public
,Canadian Dental Hygienist Association (CDHA) - ANSWER-• National
• Where you get liability insurance
• Exists so that its members are able to provide quality preventive and therapeutic oral
health care as well as health promotion for the Canadian public
Case Control Study - ANSWER-o patients with disease and a group of control without
the outcome or disease are selected and then information is obtained on whether the
subjects have been exposed or not, to the factor under investigation.
o ex. A study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that chewing tobacco increases the
risk of stomach cancer. Detailed historical date on chewing tobacco use were collected
from 400 subjects with newly diagnosed stomach cancer and 400 subjects without
stomach cancer. The results revealed that chewing tobacco was not a significant factor
for stomach ulcer.
CC Learning Activities fall within which 2 categories? - ANSWER-• Guided Learning
Plan
• Self-Directed Learning Plan
All activities for the Guided Learning Plan or the Self- Directed Learning Plan fall into
one of three categories:
1. Group Learning
2. Self Learning
3. Reflective Learning
Child Abuse - ANSWER-• Includes any physical, sexual, or emotional act directed
against a child
• Any act that endangers or impairs a child's physical or emotional health and
development
Code of Ethics - ANSWER-A code of ethics is one of the essential characteristics of a
profession
•A contract the professional makes with society
•First ethical code ~ Hippocratic Oath
•First code of ethics for RDH's was in 1927
Cohort Studies - ANSWER-o Cohort Studies:
- provide stronger evidence since both groups in a study do not have the condition of
interest
- watch both groups over time to see which one develops condition of interest
o Case Control Studies:
- compare patients who already have a condition with a matched group of those who do
not
, - May provide good info ***but not good enough cause they rely on gathering data
RETROSPECTIVELY
o Case Report Studies:
- Stronger than editorials BUT provide weak evidence as they rely on reporting findings
from one case by one individual and do not control for bias, cannot be generalized, and
cannot be statistically analyzed.
College of Dental Hygiene British Columbia (CDHBC) - ANSWER-• Our regulatory body
• Focus on the public
• Sets out scope of practice for dental hygienists
• Describes restricted activities and limitations on dental hygiene practice as well as
standard of practice expected to be met by all registrants
• Establishes Code of Ethics to be followed
• Govern the operation of the operations of the CDHBC, registration, and licensure of
dental hygienists
o Provide guidelines for:
1. The election and appointment of the governing board
2. The duties and responsibilities of the board registrar and deputy registrar
3. Qualifications of registrants
4. Standards of practice
5. Code of Ethics
Commercial Publisher - ANSWER-o Referred to as "throwaways"
o more like "magazines" than journals
o often written by professional in-house staff
o lots of advertising
o usually free
o not peer reviewed
o poor scientific quality
Conditional Registration - ANSWER-• DH's who meet ALL requirements of Full
Registration except for L.A. or C.C.
◦ Must satisfy CC requirements in a reasonable length of time
◦ After successful completion of approved L.A. course and CC requirements may apply
for Full Registration
◦ May practice DH only under supervision of full registrant with conditions set by
Registration Committee
Continuous Data - ANSWER-o Numerical
o Interval, ratio
o Quantitative
o ex. temperature, test scores, time, blood pressure
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