ppt/care plan

University of Detroit Mercy

DHY 8140 Strategies for the Prevention of Oral Diseases

Winter 2016– Draft 1 Due April 18th, Final Version Due April 20th

Review of Literature Assignment Part II: The Patient Education Script

This portion of the literature review assignment involves the development of a chairside “patient education script” designed to evaluate the dental hygiene student’s ability to communicate the patient’s unmet need and information and/or oral health intervention researched in the literature.

1. Select a patient from the Case Studies in Dental Hygiene textbook that exhibits the unmet need researched in the Review of Literature assignment.

2. Complete the “first two columns” of the Dental Hygiene Care Plan which I have attactched(provide a dental hygiene diagnosis) for the selected patient designating the specific unmet human need (xerostomia due to medication) in column 1 and explaining the details of the need in column 2 as evidenced by the patient. Explain these details on Slide 1 of the Patient Education Script portion of the PowerPoint.

3. Provide the patient’s medical and dental history data on Slide 2.

4. Provide a carefully planned written explanation you would present to the patient regarding 1) their unmet need (problem; xerostomia) and 2) the recommended product/intervention. All dialogue to the patient should be indicated in quotation marks. The following example would be the start of a script explaining interproximal bleeding and the use of an interdental aid as a means for reducing the bleeding :

“Mrs. Jones, while I was probing, your gums were bleeding. Bleeding is a sign of infection caused by bacteria in your mouth. The bleeding can be from not brushing or flossing properly leaving bacteria for more than 24 hours. Most of the bleeding was in between your teeth. In order to remove the bacteria between your teeth I recommend that you use this little brush on a handle that is called an interdental brush. (Since the patient has generalized Type III embrasure spaces the interdental brush is the aid of choice because dental floss would be ineffective in these areas.) “The interdental brush has a handle and a separate brush………..”

Present this language beginning on Slide 3.

The following must be addressed in the script (this may require multiple slides):

1. Dental Hygiene Diagnosis

2. The effect of the current medical and dental history data on patient’s unmet need and if applicable, preventive recommendations;

3. An explanation of the patient’s disease/condition status and the risk factor(s) associated with that disease/condition status;

4. An explanation of the cause/etiology of the disease/condition;

5. A discussion of any local or systemic influencing factors such as overhanging restorations, nutrition, medical complications, hereditary factors, physical disabilities, emotional status;

6. Consideration of the patients psychosocial and environmental factors;

7. A description of the product/intervention to be introduced by the dental hygiene student and how to use it if applicable;

8. Printed patient education to be given to the patient explaining the unmet need must be included.

The student will hand in the DH Care Plan, a hard copy of the Review of Literature/Chairside Patient Education Script PowerPoint,