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HEALTH PROFESSIONS
DENTISTRY AND DENTAL HYGIENE
Patient Assessment Tutorials: A Step-By-Step Procedures Guide
For The Dental Hygienist
Third Edition
Jill S. Nield-Gehrig, RDH, MA
Asheville-BuncombeTechnicalCommunityCollege, Asheville, NC
January 2013 / Spiralbound / 8.375 x 10.875 / Approx. 752 pp.
978-1-4511-3148-2
DESCRIPTION
Our leading textbook The ability to accurately assess
patients is vital to the practice of Dental Hygiene—
a complete and accurate assessment is the starting
point to providing thorough patient care.
Patient
AssessmentTutorials
takes you through the process
of patient assessment, and provides you with
information on both the actual physical assessment
as well as effective patient communication. The
highly visual, step-by-step style teaches you vital
assessment processes quickly and thoroughly.
FEATURES
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Module Overview and Outline.
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Peak Procedures.
Step-by-step instructions are
provided for each patient assessment procedure.
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Ready References
provide rapid access to
important information on each assessment topic.
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The Human Element
. This module feature
focuses on the “people part” of patient
assessment.
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List of Internet Sites for Information Gathering.
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English-to-Spanish Phrase Lists.
As the
Spanish-speaking population increases, clinicians
encounter growing numbers of Spanish-speaking
patients in dental clinics and offices.
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Fictitious Patient Cases A–E
promote the
student’s application of chapter information to
patient care, much in the same way needed when
caring for a real patient.
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Quick Questions
feature at the end of each
module provides a quick review of chapter
content.
ANCILLARIES
Instructor resources include:
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PowerPoint Presentations
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Lesson Plans
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Image Bank
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WebCT/Blackboard-ready materials.
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Guidelines
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10 Practical Focus Patient resources
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36 Role Playing Exercises for use in the
classroom
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6 Patient Case Studies
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Answers to Quick Questions (in text)
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Active Learning Cases for each Chapter.
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Students also have access to the Morita
CBCT Viewer (Cone Beam Computerized
Tomography).
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Skill Check.
The Module Skill Evaluation
procedure checklists allow a student to self-
evaluate his or her strengths and limitations in
performing the assessment procedure and to
identify additional learning needs.
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Suggestions for communication role-plays
are provided on the Instructor Resource CD
for this textbook.
Communication checklists
in the modules allow students to practice and
self-evaluate their communication skills and to
identify areas for improvement.
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Comprehensive Fictitious Patient Cases F–
K.
Module 17 of the book is comprised of
comprehensive patient cases.