Ethics, Jurisprudence and Practice Management in Dental Hygiene, 3rd edition

For all courses in ethics or practice management in dental hygiene programs.

This is the definitive, up-to-date guide to ethics, jurisprudence, and practice management for all dental hygiene students, new graduates, and licensed practitioners. The authors first introduce codes of ethics; discuss how ethical principles and moral values influence society, individual, and the profession; and cover crucial ethics-related topics such as informed consent. Next, they turn to practice management, showing how the dental practice must operate as a small business, and offering thorough career coverage. This edition’s extensive updates include: dental therapists and other alternative workforce models; regulatory changes; opportunities in forensics; comparisons with practice in Canada; and much more. Extensive new resources are provided on the MyHealthProfessionsKit website.

Hallmark Features

Thorough coverage of ethics, jurisprudence, and practice management—bringing together all the information dental hygienists need to succeed

• Provides a single source for up-to-date knowledge about a broad range of essential practice-related topics in dental hygiene

Clear chapter objectives—identifying exactly what students they will be learning

• Guides students in focusing their reading 

Key Terms—listed the beginning of each chapter, bolded and italicized in text, and explained in a glossary at the end of the book

• Ensures that students understand the field’s specialized terminology

Case Studies—presenting short scenarios that introduce and highlight chapter content, and may include specific tasks or applications

• Connects the book’s concepts to real-world practice

Critical Thinking questions—promoting classroom discussion and more thorough understanding

• Enables students to achieve deeper insight, either on their own or working with their peers

• Introduces students and working practitioners to new practice and career options that were never available to them before 

New! Discusses new trends in regulation–including changing regulation for supervision

• Shows how new trends in government regulation are impacting practice and the practitioner

New! Covers forensics–discussing new opportunities in the profession of forensics in connection with catastrophes

• Introduces a significant new opportunity for dental hygienists in the workforce

New! MyHealthProfessionsKit.com website–providing case studies, business plan templates, and other interactive resources for both students and faculty, tightly linked to the textbook

• Helps students deepen their knowledge through interactive, hands-on work
• Provides resources students can use to find work and build practices of their own
• Supports instructors with more projects and potential assignments

Updated! Includes updated instructor’s manual and PowerPoints–designed to be flexible enough to support and improve any course

• Gives instructors powerful new resources to save time and improve teaching effectiveness

New! Compares U.S. and Canadian dental hygiene practice–discussing Canada’s approach to self-regulation

• Gives students insights into how U.S. practice compares with other approaches

Expanded! Includes more coverage of practice management– including production goal setting, more business planning coverage, and leadership characteristics 

• Helps students build their own practices more successfully