Professional Portfolio: Dental Hygiene Practice Standards and Emergency Response Competencies
Overview
This professional portfolio document provides an overview of key competencies and organizational frameworks relevant to dental hygiene practice. It addresses the American Dental Hygienists' Association, cardiopulmonary resuscitation protocols as essential emergency response training, and the Philips CARE risk assessment tool for comprehensive patient evaluation.
What this coursework covers
- ADHA overview and organizational structure, representing 185,000 dental hygiene professionals
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation procedures and their importance in dental emergency response
- Philips risk assessment tool for patient care evaluation and clinical decision-making
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ADHA is an acronym for American Dentist Hygienists' Association. It is the largest organization in the United States, representing more than 185000 dental hygiene professionals across the United States. ADHA has its headquarters in Chicago. It was formed in 1923 to create mutual corporation and communication among dental hygienists in the country. ADHA has over 40 employees stationed at its headquarters with an administrative board that consists of a President, Vice President, Treasurer, and 12 trustees. Membership of ADHA is significant to hygiene professionals because it brings them together through cooperation and communication ("Home | ADHA - American Dental Hygienists Association," n.d.).
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, CPR is an emergency response procedure that includes compressing a person's chest with artificial ventilation. The aim is to manually preserve the brain's functioning until further operations are performed to fully restore blood circulation in a person who has had a cardiac arrest. CPR is often recommended to unresponsive people who are not breathing or those who have abnormal breathing. CPR training is significant to dentists because the first aid should be carried out within six minutes to reduce damage when it happens to patients. Dentists also need to be ready and conversant with carrying out first aid to save patients who get cardiac arrests at their presence (Smereka et al., 2019).