Active Learning Workbook for Wilkins’ Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist

 Designed to accompany Wilkins’ Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist, Thirteenth Edition, this engaging active-learning workbook reinforces important concepts of the main text and provides hands-on exercises that put those concepts into practice. Each chapter provides an array of learning tools and skill builders to help you master the assessment, planning, treatment, communication, and documentation skills needed to succeed as a dental hygienist. Key Features: Knowledge Exercises help you master key terms, concepts, and principles and to answer questions based on text information. Competency Exercises ask you to use critical thinking skills to apply your knowledge to clinical situations, analyze patient assessment data, or document patient care activities. Discovery Exercises build skills by asking you to find and analyze professional sources of current, evidence-based information. Questions Patients Ask exercises require you to use your evidence-based decision-making skills to address patient concerns. Everyday Ethics boxes include individual learning, cooperative learning, or discovery activities that challenge you to resolve the types of real ethical dilemmas they will face as practicing dental hygienists. Factors to Teach the Patient help you to develop conversations with patients using motivational interviewing techniques. For Your Portfolio suggestions ask you to reflect on your growth as a dental hygiene professional by developing a portfolio that highlights your individual talents, special skills, and competencies, resulting in an ideal tool for employment interviews or graduate education applications.