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Sep 07, 2024
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DHY 132 - Dental Pharmacology
Last Date of Approval: fall 2020
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course covers general pharmacology and reviews drugs that may influence the management of dental hygiene patients. This course will enable the student to develop sufficient knowledge of pharmacology to permit safe and effective medical evaluation of patients for dental hygiene treatment. This course is only offered to students who are accepted into the dental hygiene program. This course will help students develop knowledge of medications and use these skills to critically think as they evaluate and treat dental hygiene patients. This knowledge will be beneficial to the career of dental hygiene.
Corequisites: DHY 293
Mode(s) of Instruction: fCE-TO-FACE
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): cOMPREHENSIVE FINAL
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
- Demonstrate the skills required in listing sources of information, obtaining and using appropriate reference materials to gather information about a drug or interaction when needed
- Apply information gathered to appropriately manage clients on the clinic floor and in the dental office
- Describe the actions, indications, adverse reactions and therapeutic usage of commonly used drugs
- Relate the importance of the health history and the drugs listed before treatment is rendered
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