Florida Dental Hygienist CE Package
Includes the mandatory courses Domestic Violence: The Florida Requirement and Medical Error Prevention and Root Cause Analysis.
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
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Domestic Violence: The Florida Requirement 2
Course release date: 8/1/2022
Review date: 4/15/2025
Course Overview
Domestic violence continues to be a prevalent problem in the United States today. Because of the number of individuals affected, it is likely that most healthcare professionals will encounter patients in their practice who are victims. Accordingly, it is essential that healthcare professionals are taught to recognize and accurately interpret behaviors associated with domestic violence. It is incumbent upon the healthcare professional to establish and implement protocols for early identification of domestic violence victims and their abusers. In order to prevent domestic violence and promote the well-being of their patients, healthcare professionals in all settings must take the initiative to properly assess all women for abuse during each visit and, for those women who are or may be victims, to offer education, counseling, and referral information.
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Medical Error Prevention and Root Cause Analysis 2
Course release date: 9/1/2022
Review date: 4/15/2025
Course Overview
The purpose of this course is to satisfy the requirement of the Florida law and provide all licensed healthcare professionals with information regarding the root cause process, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety.
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Caries-Prone Patients: Prevention, Assessment, and Interventions, 3rd Edition 4
Course release date: 7/1/2024
Course Overview
The impact of nutrition on the caries process is known in the dental field, but dental professionals need to continue to convey the importance of this relationship to patients. Working as partners with patients, dental professionals can aid in the prevention of dental caries and help maintain patients’ overall health by offering nutritional counseling and behavior modification techniques. Parents must be educated about the unique oral health needs of children and adolescents and the importance of establishing optimal oral hygiene habits at an early age. The incidence of caries in the United States could decrease significantly as dental professionals implement the advances available for early caries detection, recommend anti-caries treatments, and offer nutritional analysis and counseling. It is also essential that dental professionals provide customized oral hygiene regimens and education for their patients. This basic-level course is intended to equip all members of the dental team with the skills needed to realize this overriding goal.
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Managing Disruptive Patients 9
Course release date: 1/6/2025
Course Overview
Healthcare professionals will encounter disruptive or hard to manage patients during their career. Examples of these disruptive encounters include workplace violence, nonadherence to medical treatments, and manipulation of caregivers. This course explores how healthcare professionals can avoid potentially violent situations and work with disruptive patients by being prepared and recognizing the signs and risk factors for these occurrences. De-escalation skills, diagnosis, preventative measures, training, and planning are all presented in this course to help healthcare professionals respond to disruptive patients and ensure a healthy environment for everyone. -
Oral Cancer and Complications of Cancer Therapies 5
Course release date: 4/7/2025
Course Overview
Millions of people are diagnosed with a variety of malignant neoplastic lesions each year. Oral cancer, in which the primary malignancy arises within the oral cavity, is the 8th most common cancer in men and the 14th most common cancer in women. The common element among this diverse patient group are the problems encountered post-surgically when chemotherapy and or radiotherapy are used to destroy malignant cells, which can remain after the completion of surgery. Malignant lesions in the oral cavity are usually treated by surgical removal and several weeks of radiotherapy. The latter modality can cause severe changes in the mucosal tissues, bone, salivary glands, and the teeth, most of which are irreversible. Proper management before, during, and after both modes of therapy will have a positive impact on the quality of life and decrease the morbidity associated with these treatment regimens. This course will discuss the changes experienced within the oral environment during and after the treatment for oral and systemic cancers. Methods to mitigate these problems and to decrease the morbidity and the mortality which afflict these patients will be reviewed. -
The Impact of Vascular and Cardiovascular Diseases on Oral Health, 4th Edition 4
Course Release Date: 7/1/2024
Course OverviewThe oral presentation of microvascular diseases such as diabetes is well documented, but many common cardiovascular conditions, including ischemic heart disease, also present with oral manifestations. In addition, patients with specific vascular diseases, such as granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly called Wegener’s granulomatosis), may present with pathognomonic oral lesions. In some instances, oral involvement precedes the appearance of other symptoms or lesions at other locations.
This intermediate-level course addresses current concepts regarding the relationship between oral health and vascular and cardiovascular diseases, including the impact on oral health of common cardiovascular pharmacotherapies. This course is intended for dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants, as well as other healthcare professionals involved in the management of patients with selected vascular and cardiovascular diseases.