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Head Start for Dental Hygienists

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Dental Hygiene Programs

VDHA.net — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:33:58 +0000

Northern Virginia Community College

Allied Health Department

Dental Hygiene Program

6699 Springfield Center Drive

Springfield, VA 22150-0000

Mary Pryor, DDS — Assistant Dean

Phone: (703) 822-6686 Fax: (703) 822-6610

Email Address: mpryor@nvcc.edu

Web Site: www.nvcc.edu

Degrees Awarded

Certificate: N/A

Associate: AAS

Baccalaureate: N/A

Germanna Community College in partnership with Northern Virginia Community College

Department of Dental Hygiene

2130 Germanna Highway

Locust Grove, VA 22508

Misty Sissom, RDH, MSCH – Local Coordinator

Phone: (540) 423-9823 Fax: (540) 423-9865

Email Address:msissom@germanna.edu

Web Site: www.germanna.edu/dnh

Old Dominion University

College of Health Sciences

Gene W. Hirschfeld School of Dental Hygiene

4608 Hampton Blvd., Health Scis. Bldg., Room. 2011

Norfolk, VA 23529-0499

Deanne Shuman, RDH, PhD — Acting Director

Deborah Bauman, BSDH, MS — Chair and Associate Professor

Phone: (757) 683-5235 Ext.: Fax: (757) 683-5239

Email Address: dbauman@odu.edu

Web Site: www.odu.edu/dental

Degrees Awarded

Certificate: N/A

Associate: N/A

Baccalaureate: BS-DH

Virginia Commonwealth University

School of Dentistry

Division of Dental Hygiene

521 North 11th Street

Richmond, VA 23298-0566

Kim T. Isringhausen, BSDH, RDH, MPH — Program Director

Phone: (804) 828-9096 Ext.: Fax: (804) 827-0969

Email Address: N/A

Web Site: www.dentistry.vcu.edu

Degrees Awarded

Certificate: N/A

Associate: N/A

Baccalaureate: BS-DH

Virginia Western Community College

Health Technology Division

Dental Hygiene Program

P.O.Box 14007

Roanoke, VA 24038-0000

Martha H. Roberson, RDH, MSHA — Associate Professor and Program Head

Phone: (540) 857-6282 Ext.: Fax: (540) 857-6224

Email Address: N/A

Web Site: www.vw.vccs.edu

Degrees Awarded

Certificate: N/A

Associate: AAS

Baccalaureate: N/A

Danville Community College Joint Venture with Virginia Western Community College

Dental Hygiene

1008 South Main Street

Danville, VA 24541

Lynn Turner, RDH BS – Local Site Coordinator

Phone: (434) 797-6427; Fax (434) 797-8449

Email Address: N/A

Website: www.dcc.vccs.edu

Degrees awarded:

Certificate: N/A

Associate: AAS (degree awarded from VWCC)

Baccalaureate: N/A

Lord Fairfax Community College Joint Venture with Virginia Western Community College

Dental Hygiene

173 Skirmisher Lane

Middletown, VA 22645

Claudia Mazurkiewicz, RDH MEd – Local Site Coordinator

Phone: (540) 868-7182 Fax: (540) 868-7100

Email Address: N/A

Website: www.lfcc.vccs.edu

Degrees awarded:

Certificate: N/A

Associate: AAS (degree awarded from VWCC)

Baccalaureate: N/A

Wytheville Community College

Dental Hygiene Program

1000 E. Main Street

Wytheville, VA 24382-0000

Elaine Smith, RDH, BS — Program Director

Phone: (276) 223-4840 Ext.: Fax: (276) 227-0411

Email Address: wcsmite@wcc.vccs.edu

Web Site: www.wcc.vccs.edu

Degrees Awarded

Certificate: N/A

Associate: AAS

Baccalaureate: N/A

Head Start

VDHA.net — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:47:13 +0000

Adopt a Head Start

VDHA has launched a new public health initiative, which we call “Adopt a Head Start”. We have partnered with the Virginia Head Start Association and the Virginia Department of Health to improve access to preventive dental health services for Virginia’s Head Start population, including staff, parents, and children. The program was piloted with the Chesterfield County Head Start program, and the Greater Richmond Dental Hygienists’ Association in 2006-07. Using volunteer dental hygienists, our goals are:

To improve access to preventive oral health services.
To increase knowledge and awareness of the importance of oral health.
To improve access to dental treatment services.
To maintain an advisory relationship regarding oral health issues for Head Start children.
To act as advocates regarding the oral health needs of Virginia’s Head Start children.

Head Start Facts

Head Start is a national comprehensive child development program that serves pregnant women, infants and children from birth through age five. The overall goal is to increase school readiness for children from low income families, by enhancing social and cognitive development through the provision of education, health, nutrition, and other services. Emphasis is placed on parental involvement in the administration of the local Head Start programs, and in the education of the child.

Data from FY-2006 reveal an enrollment level of 909,201, with 16,425 children enrolled in Virginia.

Most children enrolled in Head Start are eligible for oral health services paid for through programs such as Medicaid (DORAL in Virginia), the Indian Health Service, or the military dependent dental plan.

Children enrolled in Head Start experience more tooth decay, more extensive tooth decay, more pain from untreated decay, and less access to dental care that children from upper income families.

Untreated tooth decay in enrolled children is the number one health concern reported by Head Start staff.

Head Start Toolkit

To request a toolkit, contact:

Susan Pharr, RDH, MPH
Maternal and Early Child Oral Health Coordinator
Division of Dental Health
Virginia Department of Health
804-864-7782
Susan.Pharr@vdh.virginia.gov

Toolkit contents:

1. General Information

Component guidelines
Duties of Head Start liaison
Strategic Plan
Tracking form

2. Education (includes learning objectives, curricula resources, and more)

Staff
Parent
Classroom

3. Screening/Fluoride Varnish Guidelines

4. Health Advisory Committee

Additional Resources for Head Start Initiatives

Adopt a Head Start Guidelines

Duties of Head Start Liaison

Adopt a Head Start strategic plan

Maryland Head_Start_Oral_Health_Awareness

Oral Health Curriculum Documents and Lesson Plans

Promoting Children’s Oral Health

ADA Preschool shining_curriculum

Colgate Teachers-Guide-Pre-K

Head Start Tracking Form

VDHA.net — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:46:47 +0000

ANNUAL HEAD START TRACKING FORM
FOR ORAL HEALTH ACTIVITIES

Your name: _______________________________ (use separate page if listing names)

Head Start Program: _______________________ County/City _____________

Date of services provided: ____________________

Total # of dental providers present:________

This form will assist in tracking oral health services provided to Virginia Head Start programs.

PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN TO SUSAN PHARR

Susan.Pharr@vdh.virginia.gov

FAX #: 804-864-7783

Service	# of contact hours*	# of participants
Dental Exams (dentist)
Dental Screenings (hygienist)
Fluoride Varnish
Staff Education
Parent Education
Classroom Education
Health Advisory Committee
Health/Resource Fairs
Other

* Contact hours = # hours spent providing service (not including preparation)

Tobacco Cessation

VDHA.net — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:13:00 +0000

The VDHA contact for Tobacco Cessation is Maureen Glick.

“Oral health screenings provide a unique opportunity to give patients information that could save their lives—and to place dental hygiene on the front line of smoking cessation intervention. The advice of a dental hygienist can be a major motivation for a quit attempt by a patient who smokes.”

Tammi O. Byrd, RDH, ADHA past president

Quick Links
Virginia State Resources
National Resources
Patient and Provider Handouts
PowerPoint Presentations
Online Continuing Education

Virginia State Resources

Alliance for the Prevention and Treatment of Nicotine Addiction
The Alliance for the Prevention and Treatment of Nicotine Addiction (APTNA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization that works in collaboration with healthcare organizations and providers throughout Virginia to promote smoking cessation. APTNA provides training, consultation and resources to healthcare providers in Virginia in order to assist them in implementing research-based clinical practice guidelines designed to reduce tobacco use among their patients.
http://www.aptna.org/

Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation
The mission of the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation is to lead a statewide effort to reduce and prevent the use of tobacco products by youth in Virginia.
http://www.vtsf.org/

Smoke-Free Virginia Helpline
Printed materials only, including a free Quit Kit with audiotape or CD
1-877-856-5177

Virginians for a Healthy Future
Statewide coalition spearheading efforts to reduce tobacco use through an increase in the state per pack excise tax
www.healthyva.org

National Resources

SmokeFree.GOV
Online support, information and professional assistance available to support both immediate and long-term needs for patients and resources for health care providors.
http://www.smokefree.gov/index.asp

SMOKEFREE.NET
Action Alerts If you would like to help prevent another generation of tobaccoaddiction and disease.
http://www.smokefree.net/alerts.php

CDC “TIPS”
Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/index.htm

Office of the Surgeon General – Tobacco Cessation Guideline
The latest drugs and counseling techniques for treating tobacco use and dependence.
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/default.htm

Center for Tobacco Cessation
http://www.ctcinfo.org/about/default.asp

QuitNet
Launched in 1995, QuitNet is the Web’s original quit smoking site. QuitNet operates in association with Boston University School of Public Health.
http://www.quitnet.com/

National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/

Alberta Cancer Board
“Tobacco Cessation through Dental Offices”
http://www.cancerboard.ab.ca/cancer/cancer_ask_advise.html

American Legacy Foundation -
http://www.americanlegacy.org/americanlegacy/skins/alf/home.aspx

Tobacco.org
http://www.tobacco.org/

Circle of Friends
http://www.join-the-circle.org

US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
http://chppm-www.apgea.army.mil/dhpw/Population/TobaccoCessation.aspx

Navy Environmental Health Center - Tobacco Cessation
http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/hp/tobacco/educators.htm

Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center works with leaders of health professions and health care institutions to help them do a better job of identifying patients who smoke and steering these smokers into treatment.
http://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu/

GET OUTRAGED
Facts about ETS
http://getoutraged.com/

Patient and Provider Handouts

“Ask, Advise, Refer” Protocols and Scripts
You Can Quit Smoking
Treating Tobacco use and Dependence
List of State Quitlines
Changes Your Body Goes Through When You Quit Tobacco
Quitting Tips
Reduction Tips
Relapse Warnings
Relapse Management Tips
Smoking and Weight Gain
Second Hand Smoke
Stress Management
Smokers Journal
Urge Stopping
Withdrawal Coping

PowerPoint Presentations

Ask, Advise, Refer

Quitlines – Making A Difference

Pfizer-Medical Strategies for Tobacco Dependence

Online Continuing Education

http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/3468
This course is 1.5 hours of CME and is entitled Smoking Cessation Approaches in Primary Care

http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/3607
This course is 1.0 hours of CME and is entitled Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence

http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/index.html
University of Minnesota, Department of Periodontology. Training in tobacco use cessation intervention should begin in dental and dental hygiene schools. Our didactic and clinical components of the Tobacco Cessation Program at the School of Dentistry allow our students to become knowledgeable about and comfortable with helping their tobacco using patients. This web is designed to support the above mentioned program.

Regulations for Local Anesthesia

VDHA.net — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:59:43 +0000

These regulations became effective 4-16-2008 and are from the Virginia Board of Dentistry

18VAC60-20-81. Administration of local anesthesia and/or nitrous oxide by dental hygienists.

A. A dental hygienist who meets the qualifications set forth in this section and who is under the direction of a dentist may administer nitrous oxide/inhalation analgesia or, to patients 18 years of age or older, local anesthesia. Local anesthesia shall not include topical Schedule VI medicinal agents that may be administered under general supervision pursuant to 18VAC60-20-220 B.

B. To be eligible to administer only nitrous oxide/inhalation analgesia, a dental hygienist shall:

1. Successfully complete a didactic and clinical course leading to certification in administration of nitrous oxide offered by a dental or dental hygiene program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association, which includes a minimum of eight hours in didactic and clinical in the following topics:

a. Patient physical and psychological assessment;

b. Medical history evaluation;

c. Equipment and techniques used for administration of nitrous oxide;

d. Neurophysiology of nitrous oxide administration;

e. Pharmacology of nitrous oxide;

f. Recordkeeping, medical and legal aspects of nitrous oxide;

g. Adjunctive uses of nitrous oxide for dental patients; and

h. Clinical experiences in administering nitrous oxide, including training with live patients.

2. Successfully complete an examination with a minimum score of 75% in the administration of nitrous oxide/inhalation analgesia given by the accredited program.

C. To be eligible to administer both local anesthesia and nitrous oxide/inhalation analgesia, a dental hygienist shall:

1. Successfully complete a didactic and clinical course leading to certification in administration of local anesthesia and nitrous oxide/inhalation analgesia that is offered by a dental or dental hygiene program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association, which includes a minimum of 36 didactic and clinical hours in the following topics:

a. Patient physical and psychological assessment;

b. Medical history evaluation and recordkeeping;

c. Neurophysiology of local anesthesia;

d. Pharmacology of local anesthetics and vasoconstrictors;

e. Anatomical considerations for local anesthesia;

f. Techniques for maxillary infiltration and block anesthesia;

g. Techniques for mandibular infiltration and block anesthesia;

h. Local and systemic anesthetic complications;

i. Management of medical emergencies;

j. Clinical experiences in maxillary and mandibular infiltration and block injections;

k. Pharmacology of nitrous oxide;

l. Adjunctive uses of nitrous oxide for dental patients; and

m. Clinical experiences in administering nitrous oxide and local anesthesia injections on patients.

2. Successfully complete an examination with a minimum score of 75% in the administration of nitrous oxide/inhalation analgesia and local anesthesia given by the accredited program.

D. A dental hygienist who holds a certificate or credential issued by the licensing board of another U.S. jurisdiction that authorizes the administration of nitrous oxide/inhalation analgesia or local anesthesia may be authorized for such administration in Virginia if:

1. The qualifications on which the credential or certificate was issued were substantially equivalent in hours of instruction and course content to those set forth in subsections B and C of this section; or

2. If the certificate or credential issued by another jurisdiction was not substantially equivalent, the hygienist can document experience in such administration for at least 24 of the past 48 months preceding application for licensure in Virginia.

E. A dentist who provides direction for the administration of nitrous oxide/inhalation analgesia or local anesthesia shall ensure that the dental hygienist has met the qualifications for such administration as set forth in this section.