The remaining credit hours can be selected from a list of suggested courses to enhance individual educational goals and interests. Program Goals. Develop leaders in the dental hygiene profession.
Prepare dental hygienists to work as members of multidisciplinary health care teams and in alternative practice settings. Prepare dental hygienists for expanded roles and career opportunities. Before applying, you should ask yourself if your work and family schedules are flexible. In order to accommodate required individual and group study time, students should be able to commit at least 18 hours per week to the program includes weekends.
In order to accommodate student teaching and community projects, students should have a minimum of one weekday day available. Scores must be submitted as part of the application process using the institution code E-Learning Program Competencies. Identify career options within healthcare, industry, education, and research and evaluate the feasibility of pursuing dental hygiene opportunities.
Access professional and social networks to pursue professional development. Apply principles of ethical reasoning, ethical decision making, and professional responsibility as they pertain to the academic environment, research, patient care, and practice management. Participate in self-assessment and implement changes necessary to improve professional effectiveness. Understand the need for and establish a plan for professional development.
Possess the skills and knowledge for an entry-level teaching position in a dental hygiene program. Provide documentation of professional knowledge, skills, and growth. Utilize effective communication and interpersonal skills to form partnerships with patients and communities. Possess the skills necessary to write at a professional level.
Recognize health conditions and interventions that promote healthy lifestyles for individuals and communities. Apply theories of health behavior and behavior change to improve the oral health of individuals and communities. Evaluate health status and risk factors related to oral diseases and develop preventive strategies across all levels of health and ability. Graduates are prepared to practice in diverse settings with special emphasis on rural communities and other underserved populations through a curriculum centered in public health.
Their capstone project requires the origination of a public health project that requires exhaustive assessment and planning. Projects are then implemented and outcomes are evaluated in a final written report.
This public health emphasis specifically prepares graduates to write grant proposals and serve in public health administrative roles. The future of dentistry is moving towards the development of a dental therapist; a new Masters prepared dental midlevel provider. You will complete the remaining 9 units dependent upon whether your Arizona General Education Curriculum AGEC has been completed upon admittance to the program. There are no campus visits and you can work directly on your computer via Blackboard which is accessible and easy to use.
How long? It truly depends on you and how fast you want to achieve this goal, your working schedule, and home life, and which pathway you choose. I would say conservatively it will take you 2 years. Others have done it quicker taken more classes and others have taken 3 or more years.
Degree Completion: I would say conservatively it will take you 2 years. Students currently in a program must work closely with the academic advisor for the Degree Completion Program to determine eligibility.
One of the benefits in applying to our program is our non-traditional credits. If you transfer to NAU with less than 90 credits I can apply for non-traditional credits based on your state licensure.
We can apply for up to 26 hours free of charge to you! Depending on the AMOUNT of transfer credits from your college coursework plus the amount of credits you need to take at NAU minimum 30 credits of upper division coursework or 10 three credit hour courses you will need to achieve credits.
Contact Information. Madalyn Smolinski Program Coordinator Phone madalyn. Flagstaff Campus Dental Hygiene Program. Click here for more information. The B. Those standards and student focus are fully present in our online degree completion program, which is specifically designed for practicing dental hygienists.
It offers you:. Upon completion of the program, you also will be fully qualified to move out of the dental office and into pursuit of professional opportunities in the areas of education, research, administration, public health, and corporate business, if you desire.
The information below will give you an idea of the positions you could hold and the potential salaries you could earn by completing your B. This course uses the content from Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacology, Oral Pathology, Dental Hygiene Concepts, and other courses as the basis for discussing the impact of systemic conditions on the oral cavity. The medical history will be employed in a case-study approach to address the role of the dental hygienist in medical risk assessment and management.
In this course, dental hygiene students have the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills gained throughout the dental hygiene curriculum in an internship experience compatible with future career goals. This course examines the history, structure, and current issues revolving around the U. It studies the barriers of achieving a high-quality healthcare system that delivers cost-effective healthcare to all populations.
Designed to provide dental hygiene students and practicing dental hygienists with an overview of the instructional process, this course will emphasize the steps in the instructional planning process assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation , learning styles, teaching strategies, the use of media for instruction, and the development of outcome assessment tools.
This course is designed to provide dental hygiene students with the skills necessary to understand, interpret, and critique professional literature. The course provides an intensive, comprehensive study of the scientific research process used in the health sciences.
Students will learn to be critical consumers of published research and will be expected to complete a literature review.
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