APHA Section reviews dental competencies.Competencies for advanced dental hygiene dental hygiene n. The practice of keeping the mouth, teeth, and gums clean and healthy to prevent disease. Also called oral hygiene. practitioners should include core public health and prevention tactics, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. APHA. In August comments submitted to the American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of Dental Hygienists' Association, APHA urged that competencies and a national curricular framework include a population-based approach. The comments, prepared by APHA's Oral Health Section at the request of the Association, were provided in response to a request from an American Dental Hygienists' Association task force that is working to develop a curricular framework in support of advanced dental hygiene practitioners. The task force document includes information for developing a mid-level practitioner practitioner /prac·ti·tion·er/ (prak-tish´un-er) one who has met the requirements of and is engaged in the practice of medicine, dentistry, or nursing. nurse practitioner see under nurse. within the dental field and competencies that such a practitioner should be able to demonstrate. "It will be important to assure the integration of core population health and prevention domains that build on the previous education and experience of the (advanced dental hygiene practitioner)," stated the APHA comments. A final task force document is expected to be approved in March and will then be shared with a number of stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. , including dental organizations, educators, legislators and the public, according to the American Dental Hygienists' Association. |
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