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 - 2019
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 Unit Evaluation.
The students appreciated the practical sessions on periotomes, luxators and elvators as well as the extra-oral diagnostic radiography session by the visiting radiographer this term.
The practical sessions on periotomes, luxators and elvators as well as the extra-oral diagnostic radiography session by the visiting radiographer should be part of the lecture / training program for 2019.
Feedback from Unit Evaluation.
The Moodle site for this unit, ORAL13002 Oral Health Clinical Placement 2, in Term 2 was not as well organised or clear as for ORAL13001 Oral Health Clinical Placement 1, in Term 1.
The Moodle site for this unit, ORAL13002 Oral Health Clinical Placement 2 in Term 2 2019 will be organised in a similar fashion as for ORAL13001 Oral Health Clinical Placement 1 in Term 1.
Feedback from Personal communication with students during the term.
Students responded positively to the innovation by Ms Karen Smart to the Open University Personal Reflective Blog via Moodle which was trialed in Term 2 2018.
The innovation by Ms Karen Smart of the Open University Personal Reflective Blog via Moodle will become a permanent feature in this unit in Term 2 2019.
Feedback from Personal communication with students and clinical supervisors during the term.
Students and clinical supervisors responded positively to the innovation by Ms Karen Smart, Dr Kelly Hennessy and Mr Damien Clark to the Online Real-Time Assessment System (ORAS) which was implemented in Term 2 2018.
The innovation by Ms Karen Smart, Dr Kelly Hennessy and Mr Damien Clark of the Online Real-Time Assessment System (ORAS) will become a permanent feature in Term 2 2019.
Feedback from Personal communication with students and clinical supervisors during the term.
The off-campus clinical placement sites in Toowoomba, Emerald, Gladstone and Caloundra posed some difficulty for the oral health therapy students in terms of training for the clinical supervisors.
A system of training and subsequent regular on-site monitoring visits and communication via telephone, email, ZOOM and ORAS will need to be organised for this unit in 2019.
- 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: Paperback
Darby and Walsh Dental Hygiene
Edition: 5th (2020)
Authors: Denise M. Bowen, RDH, MS and Jennifer A Pieren, RDH, MS
Saunders, Evolve
St Louis St Louis , Missouri , United States of America
ISBN: 9780323477192
Binding: Hardcover
Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Dentistry
Edition: Third (2017)
Authors: Stephan J Stefanac and Samuel P Nesbit
Elsevier Saunders
St Louis St Louis , Missouri , USA
ISBN: 9780323287302
Binding: Paperback
Foundations of Periodontics for the Dental Hygienist
Edition: Fourth (2015)
Authors: Jill S. Gehrig and Donald E. Willmann
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Philadelphia Philadelphia , Pennsylvan , USA
ISBN: 9781451194159
Binding: Paperback
Modern Dental Assisting
Edition: 12th (2018)
Authors: Bird, D.L. and Robinson, D.S.
Elsevier
St Louis St Louis , Missouri , United States of America
ISBN: 9780323430302
Binding: Hardcover
Mosby's Dental Drug Reference
Edition: 12th (2017)
Authors: Arthur Jeske
Elsevier Saunders
St Louis St Louis , Missouri , USA
ISBN: 9780323481113
Binding: Paperback
Therapeutic Guidelines Oral and Dental
Edition: Version 2 (2012)
Authors: Oral and Dental Expert Group
Therapeutic Guidelines Limited
Melbourne Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
ISBN: 9780980825312
Binding: Paperback
Preservation and Restoration of Tooth Structure
Edition: Third (2016)
Authors: Graham J Mount, Wyatt R Hume, Hien Ngo and Mark S Wolff
Wiley Blackwell
Chichester Chichester , United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781118766590
Binding: Paperback
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
Adult Restorative Dentistry for an Oral Health Therapist
Prosthodontics
Gerodontology
Cancer Care
Chapter
Noble, S. (2012). Clinical textbook of dental hygiene and therapy. 2nd ed. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, Chapters 13 and 15
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Cancer Care Team, CQH&HS
Module/Topic
Orthodontics for an Oral Health Therapist
Chapter
Liu, Z., McGrath, C. and Hägg, U. (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, 139(2), pp.214-219.
Zhang,
M., McGrath, C. and Hägg, U. (2008). Changes in oral health-related quality of
life during fixed orthodontic appliance therapy. American Journal of
Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, 133(1), pp.25-29.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Ms Kate Danby, CQH&HS and Lupton Stewart Orthodontics
Module/Topic
Dental Research
Chapter
Nathe, C.N. (2011) Dental Public Health and Research, Contemporary Practice for the Dental Hygienist. 3rd ed. Boston: Pearson
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Associate Professor Leonie M. Short
Module/Topic
Paediatric Dentistry for an Oral Health Therapist
Dental Trauma
Hypomineralised First Molars
Chapter
Noble, S. (2012). Clinical textbook of dental hygiene and therapy. 2nd ed. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, Chapter 12.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Associate Professor Leonie M. Short
Module/Topic
Rural and Remote Dentistry
Interprofessional Practice
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. Canberra: Australian Institute
of Health and Welfare, April, Bulletin 102.
http://www.aihw.gov.au/WorkAre/
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: Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare.
http://www.ada.org.au/volunteers
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Ms Jenni-Lee Rees, Speech Pathologist,
CQH&HS and CQUniversity
Module/Topic
Forensic Dentistry
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Video recording
Dr Marie Wilson, Dental Practitioner
Module/Topic
Vacation Week
Voluntary Clinical Placement to Emerald, Springsure, Clermont and Sapphire
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Associate Professor Leonie M. Short and Ms Melissa Plath
Module/Topic
Professional Responsibilities including Occupational Health and Safety at Work
Infection Control
Chapter
Noble, S. (2012). Clinical textbook of dental hygiene and therapy. 2nd ed. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, Chapter 17
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Mr Julian Harden, NSK Oceania
Module/Topic
Periodontics for an Oral Health Therapist
Before you go......
Oral Health Products
Guided Biofilm Therapy
Chapter
Noble, S. (2012). Clinical textbook of dental hygiene and therapy. 2nd ed. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, Chapter 5
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Ms Rena Delly, Colgate Oral Care
Dr Elizabeth Mildford, Oral-B, Week 1, 19 July 2019
Ms Tabitha Acret, EMS Dental, Week 4, 9 August 2019
Module/Topic
Oral Pathology for an Oral Health Therapist
Chapter
Noble, S. (2012). Clinical textbook of dental hygiene and therapy. 2nd ed. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, Chapters 2 and 3
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Associate Professor Neil Savage, Specialist Oral Pathologist
Module/Topic
Professional Indemnity Insurance
Litigation
Notifications
Purchasing and Managing a Dental Practice
Resilience and Leadership
Living Stories
Chapter
Noble, S. (2012). Clinical textbook of dental hygiene and therapy. 2nd ed. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, Chapter 20
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Ms Shireen Smith, Dental Protection Ltd
Dr Ben Keith, AHPRA
Dr Padma Gadiyar, Professional Practice Sales, Week 10, 27 September 2019
Dr Becky Chen, Lucas, Victoria
Ms Julie-Ann Gleeson, Brisbane, Qld, Week 2, 29 July 2019
Module/Topic
Dental Practice Management
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures on campus
Ms Donna Hamilton, CQUniversity Health Clinic, Dental Practice ManagerModule/Topic
Maintenance of Handpieces and Dental Plant Equipment
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lecture on campus
Mr Grant Suthers and Mr Kim Asher, CQTec Service
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 unit are compulsory - failure to attend clinical placement opportunities will lead to failure in the unit. All absences must be covered with a medical certificate which should be sent to the Unit Coordinator within one week of each absence. Moreover, 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 the term.
Clinical Attire in the Oral Health Clinics and Residential and Aged Care Facilities: 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 also a requirement of Queensland Health. The outer protective garment (theatre gown) 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 (theatre gown) 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. A student can be sent home if the clinical attire is not adequate.
Laboratory Attire in the Oral Health Simulation and Prosthetic Laboratories: All students are required to wear their oral health polo plus an outer protective garment - short laboratory tops or jackets are required for this purpose. The outer
protective garment (short laboratory top or jacket) 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 (short laboratory top or jacket) cannot be worn in the Oral Health Oral Health Clinics. 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. A student can be sent home if the laboratory attire is not adequate.
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 Unit.
Clinical Practical Component: Clinical Practical Component: In each clinical and laboratory session, you are required to complete all the clinical oral health practice and laboratory exercises. These practical components 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.
1 Presentation
You will be required to attend an oral presentation which will be scheduled in the examination period, submit an electronic copy of your completed PowerPoint slides via Moodle one week in advance and supply three hard copies of your PowerPoint presentation at the time of your presentation. 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.
Review/Exam Week Wednesday (16 Oct 2019) 5:00 pm AEST
This assessment task is due at 5pm on Wednesday 16 June 2019. Marks will be deducted at a penalty of 5% or equivalent of the total available marks for the assessment for each calendar day (full or part) it is overdue. The case study will then be presented in person over two pre-determined days in the Exam Weeks after consultation with external assessors.
Friday 8 November 2019 on Moodle
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 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. 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 unit 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 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.
Via the Online Real-time Assessment System and Reflective Journal (Open University Personal Blog) on Moodle.
Friday 8 November 2019
Clinical Supervisors will assess student performance, and provide feedback and strategies for improvement in your Clinical Workbooks via the Via the Online Real-time Assessment System. 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
3 Practical and Written Assessment
The Clinical Workbook and its associated Online Real-time Assessment System and Reflective Journal (Open University Personal Blog) 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, the Sub-acute Chronic Care Rehabilitation (SACCR) Health Clinic for Intake, school and community dental clinics, residential care facilities, private general and specialist dental practices and hospital settings.
Via the Online Real-time Assessment System and Reflective Journal (Open University Personal Blog) on Moodle.
Friday 8 November 2019
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 Online Real-time Assessment System - it is similar to that utilised in ORAL13001 Oral Health Clinical Placement 1 in Term 1.
Components of this assessment item include:
-
Patient comments, compliments or complaints,
- Self and Peer (Dental Assistant) Evaluation,
- Student Reflective Practice,
- Prosthetic Procedures Assessment Performance, and
- Clinical Procedures Assessment Performance.
The assessment criteria for the Reflective Journal (Open University Personal Blog) will be consistent with Gibbs' 6 stages of the reflective cycle. An assessment rubric by Jones (and modified by Plath and Short) for your Reflective Journal is included in your Clinical Workbook:
- Clarity,
- Relevance,
- Analysis,
- Self-criticism, and
- Strategies for improvement.
The Reflective Journal must completed for each clinical placement day and uploaded on Moodle at least once per week. It must include your reflection on the feedback from the Supervisor from a procedure or placement in which you failed, performed poorly or in which your performance could be improved.
- Brief summary of procedures OR Brief summary of placement.
- Which procedures were performed well? OR Expectation of learning on the placement.
- What procedures could be improved? OR What did you learn today on placement?
- Strategies for improvement OR Strategies to enhance learning on placement.
- What did I learn today?
This is a graded unit: Your overall mark for this assessment item will be calculated jointly from the Pass / Fail mark for each of the Online Real-time Assessment System (0-3) and the Reflective Journal (0-3) (Open University Personal Blog). You must meet a minimum mark requirement of 67% for each of the Online Real-time Assessment System and the Reflective Journal (Open University Personal Blog) in order to ‘pass’ this assessment item.
- 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
Examination
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.