Overview
This unit is a sequel to ORAL13001 Oral Health Clinical Placement 1 which consolidates skills learnt previously in Term 1. This capstone unit will provide you with the integration of knowledge, skills and professional experience in a range of environments such as the CQUniversity Health Clinic, private dental surgeries, public dental clinics, community settings, residential care facilities, local schools and the Rockhampton Base Hospital in preparation for employment as an oral health therapist. You will be exposed to a real work environment where you will be able to demonstrate competence in total patient care over a range of clinical preventive and operative procedures with child and adult patients. This may include the provision of total patient care for patients who are medically compromised, with special needs, with co-morbidity and poly-pharmacy, with fixed and / or removable oral prostheses, with root caries and those requiring direct intra-coronal restorations. You will also refine clinical judgment skills in identifying patients who require referral pathways for complex care outside one's scope of practice. Your ability for self-evaluation of knowledge and clinical skills within a supportive and confidence- building environment should be at the level of a new graduate by the end of the term. Lastly, you will be able to communicate information regarding oral health in oral and written forms utilising appropriate interpersonal/team communication skills, professional attitudes and ethical behaviours.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prereq: ORAL13001 Oral Hlth Clinical Placement 1 and HLTH13031 Population Health Epidemiology or with approval from the Discipline Leader for Oral Health. Coreq: NURS13117 Research in Health Care unless previously successfully completed by the student.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 18-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 37.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 450 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Annual Unit Evaluation report and feedback from Year 3 Student Representatives at Oral Health Staff Meetings.
The students value the clinical placements in the School Dental Service.
The clinical placements in the School Dental Service should be retained in 2017. This is a partnership / agreement between Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service and CQUniversity. Clinical placements in other Health Districts will also be sought for 2017 and beyond.
Feedback from Annual Unit Evaluation report and feedback from Year 3 Student Representatives at Oral Health Staff Meetings.
A couple of students were very critical of the performance of their peers in this unit.
If any student has any concerns about the performance of another student, they should raise this issue with the Unit Coordinator during the term. Regular meetings between the Student Representatives and the CQUniveristy academics and clinical supervisors will take place in 2017 to discuss peer issues as they arise. Writing negative comments about peers in the Unit Evaluation at the end of the term is not helpful to anyone concerned. All students need to be supported and helped all through the term.
Feedback from Annual Unit Evaluation report and feedback from Year 3 Student Representatives at Oral Health Staff Meetings.
A few students were very critical of some private clinical placements.
Students need to embrace active learning in different environments and make the most of these valuable opportunities. Regular meetings between the Clinical Supervisors and the CQUniveristy academics will take place in 2017 to discuss clinical placement issues as they arise. Moreover, regular meetings between the Student Representatives and the CQUniveristy academics and clinical supervisors will also take place in 2017 to discuss clinical placement issues as they arise. Writing negative comments about clinical placement sites in the Unit Evaluation at the end of the term is not helpful to anyone concerned - it can be very damaging to the reputation of the owners of the private dental practices. CQUniversity needs to work closely with clinical placement sites in order to maximise student learning opportunities and ensure privacy and confidentiality is maintained by students about activities at the clinical placement sites.
- Integrate knowledge, skills and professional experience from Years 1, 2 and 3 in a range of environments in preparation for employment as an oral health therapist
- Deliver safe and competent clinical care through preventive and operative procedures with child and adult patients
- Provide total patient care for patients who are medically compromised, with special needs, with co-morbidity and poly-pharmacy, with fixed and / or removable oral prostheses, with root caries and those requiring direct intra-coronal restorations
- Develop clinical judgment skills in identifying patients who require referral pathways for complex care outside one's scope of practice
- Create and deliver individual and small group oral health education and promotion sessions in a range of settings in the community
- Demonstrate self-evaluation of knowledge and clinical skills at the level of a new graduate
- Communicate information regarding oral health in oral and written forms
- Satisfy the requirements of an evolving dental practitioner utilising appropriate interpersonal / team communication skills, professional attitudes and ethical behaviours.
All unit profiles in the Bachelor of Oral Health are made available to the Australian Dental Council and the Dental Board of Australia for on-going accreditation purposes.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Presentation - 40% | ||||||||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 0% | ||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 60% | ||||||||
| 4 - Professional Practice Placement - 0% | ||||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Presentation - 40% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 0% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 60% | ||||||||||
| 4 - Professional Practice Placement - 0% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Clinical Textbook of Dental Hygiene and Therapy
Edition: 2nd edn Revised (2012)
Authors: Suzanne L. Noble (Editor)
John Wiley and Sons
Chichester Chichester , United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780470658376
Binding: Hardcover
Essentials of Dental Caries
Fourth Edition (2016)
Authors: Edwina Kidd and Ole Fejerskov
Oxford University Press
Oxford Oxford , United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780198738268
Binding: Hardcover
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing styles below:
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
l.m.short@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Periodontics for an Oral Health Therapist
Chapter
Noble, 2012, Chapter 5
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Module/Topic
Orthodontics for an Oral Health Therapist
Chapter
Zhijian Liu, Colman McGrath, and Urban Hägg 2011 ‘Changes in oral health-related quality of life during fixed orthodontic appliance therapy: An 18-month prospective longitudinal study’, American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, February, Volume 139, Issue 2, pages 214-219.
Man Zhang, Colman McGrath, and Urban Hägg 2008 ‘Changes in oral health-related quality of life during fixed orthodontic appliance therapy’, American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, January, Volume 133, Number 1, pages 25-29.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Module/Topic
Paediatric Dentistry for an Oral Health Therapist - Trauma and Hypomineralised First Molars
Chapter
Noble, 2012, Chapter 12
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Module/Topic
Adult Restorative Dentistry including Prosthodontics and Gerodontology for an Oral Health Therapist
Chapter
Noble, 2012, Chapters 13 and 15
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Module/Topic
Rural and Remote Dentistry
Chapter
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Department of Health and Ageing 2011 Dental Health of Indigenous Children in the Northern Territory: Progress of the Closing the Gap Oral Health Program up to December 2011. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, April, Bulletin 102.
http://www.aihw.gov.au/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=10737421510
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2012. Dental health of Indigenous children in the Northern Territory: findings from the Closing the Gap Program. Cat. no. IHW 41. Canberra: AIHW.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Module/Topic
Vacation Week
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Dental Research
Chapter
Christine Nielson Nathe 2011 Dental Public Health and Research, Contemporary Practice for the Dental Hygienist (Third Edition). Boston: Pearson
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Module/Topic
Oral Pathology for an Oral Health Therapist
Chapter
Noble, 2012, Chapters 2 and 3
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Module/Topic
Litigation
Dental Protection Ltd
Chapter
Noble, 2012, Chapter 20
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Module/Topic
Maintenance of Handpieces and Dental Plant Equipment
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Module/Topic
Forensic Dentistry
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Module/Topic
Professional Responsibilities including Health and Safety at Work
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Module/Topic
Practice Management
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Practical and Written Assessment Due: Week 12 Friday (6 Oct 2017) 5:00 pm AEST
Professional Practice Placement Due: Week 12 Friday (6 Oct 2017) 5:00 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Revision and Examination Preparation
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Final Written Examination and Case Presentations
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Attendance: All clinical placements for this course are compulsory - failure to attend clinical placement opportunities will lead to failure in the course. All absences must be covered with a medical certificate which should be sent to the Course Coordinator within one week of each absence. Alternatively, you need to seek approval by the Course Coordinator prior to any planned absence from any on- or off-campus clinical, community or educational placement. Furthermore, all absences must be made up at operational convenience before the end of term.
Assessment: This is a graded course: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the Course Profile. You must obtain an overall mark for the course of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the course. You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’section in order to pass the course overall.
Clinical attire: All students are required to wear their oral health polo plus an outer protective garment - theatre gowns are required for this purpose. The theatre gown is a requirement of CQH&HS. The outer protectivegarment must be placed in a plastic bag after the session or day and washed appropriately. All garments must be freshly laundered and ironed. The outer protective garment cannot be worn in the Oral Health Prosthetic Laboratory or Simulation Laboratory. All students must wear trousers and low-heeled closed-in shoes, wear their protective eyewear, have their hair tied back and wear no jewellery on their hands or arms except for a simple wedding ring.
Workplace Health and Safety: Students must abide by infection control policies, guidelines and procedures at each clinical placement.All mandatory requirements for clinical practice must be met before and during the term. Failure to comply will lead to withdrawal from the clinical placements and failure in the Course.
Clinical Practical Component: In each clinical and laboratory session, you are required to complete exercises. These exercises are designed to consolidate, apply and extend the theory learnt in lectures into clinical practice. All activities are graded by the supervisor using criterion-referenced assessment rubrics. The pass grade is 67%.
Clinical Written Component: Self-reflection is an important practice for personal and professional development. You will be required to write in a self-reflective journal based on your practical experiences. This journal will be graded by a supervisor. The pass grade is 67%.
1 Presentation
You will be required to attend an oral presentation which will be scheduled in the examination period.
With the support of a power point presentation, you will be required to present an in-depth case report for either a child, adolescent or adult patient for whom you have provided dental treatment in the student clinics. It is recommended that you include dental records, clinical photographs, x-rays and a study model (if appropriate) of your patient. These MUST be de-identified.
Each case report must include justification for the way you have managed the treatment and prevention strategies.
The child, adolescent or adult patient needs to have presented with hard tissue pathology (dental caries), requiring you to plan and justify appropriate treatment modalities. Your care plan must include the determinants of oral health for your patient, i.e. a focus on the developmental stages of the patient, in particular relating this to the way your clinical care and home-care preventive strategies are planned and managed.
OR
A child, adolescent or adult patient who has presented with soft tissue pathology (periodontitis) and/or hard tissue pathology (dental caries) and/or a medical condition which may or may not impede on treatment you can provide. You are required to plan and justify appropriate treatment modalities. Your care plan must include the determinants of oral health for your patient, i.e. consideration of the social and cognitive abilities of the patient, in particular, you need to relate this to the way your clinical care and home-care preventive strategies are planned and managed.
Two pre-determined days in the Exam Weeks after consultation with external assessors.
Monday 23 October 2017
The assessment criteria for your case presentation is included on the marking sheet. The assessment criteria for the case presentation will be the similar to that utilised in Term 1 in ORAL13001 Oral Health Clinical Placement 1.
Aspects of the presentation that will attract marks includes:
- Format 2 marks
- Oral Health Therapy Practice 12 marks
- Content 8 marks
- Critical Analysis and Reflection 12 marks
- Timing 3 marks
- Communication of Content 8 marks
- Referencing 3 marks
- PowerPoint Presentation 2 marks
This is a graded course: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the course of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the course. You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section in order to pass the course overall.
- Deliver safe and competent clinical care through preventive and operative procedures with child and adult patients
- Provide total patient care for patients who are medically compromised, with special needs, with co-morbidity and poly-pharmacy, with fixed and / or removable oral prostheses, with root caries and those requiring direct intra-coronal restorations
- Develop clinical judgment skills in identifying patients who require referral pathways for complex care outside one's scope of practice
- Create and deliver individual and small group oral health education and promotion sessions in a range of settings in the community
- Communicate information regarding oral health in oral and written forms
- Satisfy the requirements of an evolving dental practitioner utilising appropriate interpersonal / team communication skills, professional attitudes and ethical behaviours.
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Cross Cultural Competence
2 Practical and Written Assessment
The Clinical Workbook is a record of dental treatment provided to patients across a variety of settings and your reflections with feedback and strategies for improvement from supervisors. The settings include the CQUniversity Private Health Clinic, CQUniversity Public Health Clinic, the Sub-acute Chronic Care Rehabilitation (SACCR) Health Clinic for Intake, school dental clinics, residential care facilities, private general and specialist dental practices and hospital settings. The Clinical Workbook also contains a record of oral health education and promotion activities, and fabricated prosthetic appliances such as fabricated mouthguards and whitening trays.
Week 12 Friday (6 Oct 2017) 5:00 pm AEST
Return to A/Prof Leonie Short in her ofifce B6/1.21 or in her mailbox in Building 6.
Exam Week Friday (20 Oct 2017)
Friday 20 October 2017
The assessment criteria for the exercises undertaken in Clinical Workbook will be consistent with the Assessment Rubric for Evaluation of Student Performance of Clinical Procedures included in the Clinical Workbook - it is similar to that utilised in ORAL13001 Oral Health Clinical Placement 1 in Term 1.
Aspects of the presentation that will attract marks includes:
- Self and Peer Evaluation,
- Student Reflective Practice,
- Prosthetic Procedures Assessment Performance Criteria, and
- Clinical Procedures Assessment Performance Criteria
This is a graded course: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the course of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the course. You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section, in order to pass the course overall.
- Integrate knowledge, skills and professional experience from Years 1, 2 and 3 in a range of environments in preparation for employment as an oral health therapist
- Deliver safe and competent clinical care through preventive and operative procedures with child and adult patients
- Provide total patient care for patients who are medically compromised, with special needs, with co-morbidity and poly-pharmacy, with fixed and / or removable oral prostheses, with root caries and those requiring direct intra-coronal restorations
- Develop clinical judgment skills in identifying patients who require referral pathways for complex care outside one's scope of practice
- Create and deliver individual and small group oral health education and promotion sessions in a range of settings in the community
- Demonstrate self-evaluation of knowledge and clinical skills at the level of a new graduate
- Satisfy the requirements of an evolving dental practitioner utilising appropriate interpersonal / team communication skills, professional attitudes and ethical behaviours.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
3 Professional Practice Placement
You must attend every on- and off-campus clinical, community or educational placement. If you are absent, you must obtain a Medical Certificate and hand or email this to the Unit Coordinator. Alternatively, you need to seek approval by the Unit Coordinator prior to any planned absence from any on- or off-campus clinical, community or educational placement. Furthermore, all absences must be made up at operational convenience before the end of term.
Week 12 Friday (6 Oct 2017) 5:00 pm AEST
Return to A/Prof Leonie Short in her ofifce B6/1.21 or in her mailbox in Building 6.
Exam Week Friday (20 Oct 2017)
Friday 20 October 2017
Clinical Supervisors will assess student performance, provide feedback and strategies for improvement in your Clinical Workbooks (Assessment 2) and enter the required information onto the summary sheets.
The assessment criteria will take into account all time (hours or days) lost during the term - this includes sick leave with a medical certificate, leave negotiated with the Unit Coordinator in advance and leave with no supporting evidence. All absences must be made up at operational convenience before the end of term.
A Pass for satisfactory attendance is defined as maintaining as fulfilling the 100% attendance record. A Pass/Fail result will be determined from information entered on the summary sheets.
- Integrate knowledge, skills and professional experience from Years 1, 2 and 3 in a range of environments in preparation for employment as an oral health therapist
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
Examination
Dictionary - non-electronic, concise, direct translation only (dictionary must not contain any notes or comments).
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
