Course Title: Apply rubber dam and fissure sealants
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2014
Course Code: DENT5804
Course Title: Apply rubber dam and fissure sealants
School: 155T Life & Physical Sciences
Campus: City Campus
Program: C6119 - Advanced Diploma of Oral Health (Dental Hygiene)
Course Contact : Paulette Smith
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 93411403
Course Contact Email:paulette.smith@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Nominal Hours: 20
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
HLTIN403B – Implement and monitor infection control policies and procedures
TAFEDH006 - Scale teeth, debride root surfaces and stains from teeth
Course Description
This unit deals with the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to apply rubber dam for the purposes of placing fissure sealants.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
TAFEDH007 Apply rubber dam and fissure sealants |
Element: |
1. Prepare surgery |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Equipment, materials and instruments required for the patient's treatment (including for any procedure(s) to be undertaken in addition to the application and removal of rubber dam (RD) and the application of fissure sealant) are gathered and arranged within the treatment cubicle |
Element: |
2. Assess and prepare the patient |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Patient‟s medical history and records, including radiographs, are reviewed to eliminate any contraindications to proposed treatment modalities and to confirm treatment prescriptions |
Element: |
3. Apply rubber dam |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Rubber dam is applied in accordance to relevant guidelines and without trauma to the surrounding hard and soft tissues |
Element: |
4. Apply fissure sealant |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Tooth/teeth to be sealed are examined and cross checked for verification in the current treatment plan for the patient |
Element: |
5. Remove rubber dam |
Performance Criteria: |
5.1 The most anterior securing devices are removed and the rubber dam stretched towards the buccal/facial/ labial surfaces to enable cutting of the interproximal dam with scissors |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit you will have the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to apply rubber dam for the purposes of placing fissure sealants.
Details of Learning Activities
Includes a combination of some or all of the following; class attendance and participation, individual or group project work, e-learning, self-directed learning, Blackboard pre-reading, clinical practice.
Online activities are strongly encouraged to prepare for, support and extend learning.
Teaching Schedule
A final schedule will be issued by the teacher at the commencement of the course (unit).
Timetable will indicate face-to-face and on-line activities and how these address learning elements.
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
Practical preclinical. Practical Clinical.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment for this course forms part of the Advanced Diploma of Oral Health (Dental Hygiene).
Training is mapped to the Australian Dental Council June 2011 “Professional attributes and competencies of the newly qualified dental hygienist” and the Dental Board of Australia “Scope of Practice”.
Students must abide by the 2012 “ADA Guidelines for Infection Control Second Edition”, 2010 NHMRC “Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare” and Worksafe Victoria “Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2007”.
Primary assessment involves on-going practical and applied assessment in a clinical workplace or simulated environment such as a supervised student clinic.
Assessment is typically based around written and/or online tests, assignments, reflective journals, evidence portfolio’s, logbooks and/or practical demonstrations.
Competency based training requires the student to be in attendance in order for assessment to be undertaken. Please refer to definition of Vocational Competency (http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=xjog855ryrtq;STATUS=A;SECTION=3;PAGE_AUTHOR=Penny%20Mercer).
Assessment is undertaken through successful completion of all assessment activities and classroom, project & industry participation. Assessment will also be undertaken replicating workplace conditions (as far as possible), and where relevant undertaken in the clinical setting. Assessments are spaced across the duration of the course, in order for your teacher to provide you with progressive feedback.
Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or online discussions, through individual and group feedback on practical exercises and by individual consultation.
If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or the Disability Liaison Unit if you would like to find out more.
The RMIT assessment policy outlines your responsibilities as a RMIT student as well as those of your teachers (http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse%3BID%3Dm7g4l18jk1bpz (unresolved)).
Assessment Matrix
All summative assessments listed are compulsory for a successful outcome.
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