Great Happenings: Oral Health Initiatives
NEWS !!!
Minnesota Passes Oral Health Practitioner Bill:
Minnesota becomes the first state to educate licensed Dental Therapists and credentialed Advanced Dental Therapists.
Retrieved on July 1, 2009 from http://www.mndental.org/client_files/documents/OHP_Articles/OHP_Biomedicine_5-18-09.pdf
Metropolitan State University (St. Paul) will be the site for the country's first Master's of Science in Oral Health Practitioner, i.e. Advanced Dental Therapist, program! Contact Metropolitan State University, College of Nursing and Health Sciences for details: http://www.metrostate.edu/msweb/explore/cnhs/
Degree Completion Programs:
Metropolitan State University has partnered with Normandale Community College to offer two dental hygiene degree completion programs with emphasis on Collaborative and Advanced Dental Hygiene Practice: the Baccalaureate Degree Completion in Dental Hygiene (BSDH) and Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Collaborative and Advanced Dental Hygiene Practice. Note that all Post-Baccalaureate Certificate applicants must have previously completed a baccalaureate/bachelors degree program. http://www.metrostate.edu/msweb/explore/cnhs/
WHAT IS COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE?
Practical Definition of Collaborative Practice:
[Dentist-dental hygienist] collaborative practice is different from and greater than [dentist-dental hygienist] collaboration. Collaboration is a single, temporal event that can occur intermittently in the day to day practice of health care. Conversly, [dentist-dental hygienist] collaborative practice is a dynamic process, a commitment to interact on a professional level, that empowers the participants to blend their talent, to achieve a goal that neither can do alone.
Source: Thomson, D.J. 1995. Physician's perceptions of nurse-physician collaborative practice. Florida Atlantic University. Retrieved on June 1, 2007 from Retrieved on August 1, 2008 from: http://digitalcommons.fau.edu/dissertations/AAI1361619/
Academic Definition of Collaborative Practice:
The science of the prevention and treatment of oral disease through the provision of education, assessment, preventive, clinical, and other therapeutic services in a cooperative working relationship with a consulting dentist, but without general supervision...
Retrieved on August 1, 2008 from http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_nathe_dental_2/0,9128,1352887-content,00.html
Collaborative Agreement Templates Available Here:
In the State of Minnesota, there is not one standard Collaborative Agreement form that must be used. The document can be created in any style chosen by a dentist and dental hygienist who are entering into the collaborative agreement relationship. Minnesota does, however, require that all pertinent information identified in state Statute, Rules, and Regulations be addressed in the Agreement. Below you will find two template examples that we have created: Head Start Center/Pre-school Setting or Long-Term Health Care Setting. You are welcome to use these templates as a basis to get you started. Good luck!
Minnesota Collaborative Agreement templates. Click on a link below to access the forms.
Head Start Program or Pre-school Setting
Long-term Health Care Setting
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