Health and Hygiene Essay

Magnification Loupes in U.S. Entry–level Dental Hygiene Programs – Occupational Health and Safety written by Dongdon, Tolle, Darby (2012) The purpose of this study was due to improving dental hygienists environmental stressors and improve occupational health of dental hygienists by the American Dental Hygienists’ association’s (ADHA). The National Dental Hygiene Research Agenda states that occupational health and safety introduced the magnification of loupes so that it could reduce stressors…

not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless [man] can take a healthy view of it”(Chesterton), just like a person cannot be healthy without hygiene and cannot be hygienic without being healthy. Because “more than [two hundred] million children under [five] years fail to reach their potential in cognitive development due to poor health and nutrition, and deficient care"(Grantham-McGregor), it is very important that children learn good hygiene and correct eating…

How would you contribute to the health of society by becoming a licensed dental hygienist? In life, I would love to see everyone’s smile. I feel pitiful for someone whom is embarrassed about his or her smile, so I want to help everyone can achieve a beautiful smile and healthy tooth. I have been interested in teeth and health care, that’s why I chose dental hygiene as my career. Based on my work experiences at the dental office, dental hygiene is a challenging career that offers team work and…

The Future of Dental Hygiene Dental hygienists have many active roles that they must maintain, these include: being an educator, researcher, administrator/manager, advocate, and also a clinician. Dental hygienists are always educators, and explain the treatment plan specifically created for each and every patient. They are also researchers, always learning about the latest and greatest supplies in the dental world to help with suggestions and recommendations for their patients. Dental…

Although movement of people, food and manufactured goods can have such a negative impact on public health, steps should not be taken to reduce this flows, instead preventive measures should take place. Justifying the above statement, people and countries benefit from these flows. International trade is achieved through these movements, exporters benefit and importers benefit. Poor countries that depend solely on subsistence farming benefit from the exports of foods that they cultivate, wealthier…

involving safety in the health care setting and how to resolve them. Among the seven goals was to prevent infection. The Joint Commission noted that millions of people each year acquire nosocomial infections while in health care settings, and therefore it is a patient safety issue that crosses all types of health care settings. They listed the number one way to address nosocomial infections as improving compliance of hand hygiene in health care staff (NPSGs p. 8). Proper hand hygiene is the most…

Hand hygiene compliance rate in the United States Hospitals is low despite the fact that there is glaring medical evidence that supports the connection between poor hand hygiene and healthcare-associated infections (HAI). It is hard to comprehend why hand hygiene has become a challenging task to healthcare organization to achieve, for nothing is as easy as hand washing; it one of the simplest methods of standard precautions. It is apparent that if healthcare workers do not correctly follow…

In colleges all around Massachusetts, with dental hygiene programs, only twenty two students are accepted and I was very well aware that it was a very competitive program to be accepted into. I started to enjoy college a lot I loved to study hard to receive incredible outcomes, it made me want to only work harder and challenge myself more. I enrolled to take all the prerequisites in order to apply for dental hygiene program and on March 19th 2014 I received what I believe to be my…

different pathogens that can easily contaminate the hospital. Hand hygiene is an easy solution that highly decreases the risk of cross-contamination to other surfaces, coworkers, and even patients. These standards of care, regarding sanitization, are relatively new in the timeline of medical practice. In the mid-1800’s, during the Crimean War, a woman by the name of Florence Nightingale was about the change the standards of health policies when treating a patient. Nightingale realized the…

that you must go to everyday but a profession that you look forward to everyday. The profession that I have chosen to pursue is Dental Hygiene. What makes Dental Hygiene a desirable profession you ask? Dental Hygiene is a desirable profession for the following reasons its lifestyle, necessary qualities, competitive wages, rapid growth, and education. Dental hygiene is a desirable profession due to its flexible schedule it offers. As a dental hygienist, you can work part-time or full-time.…