Professional Introduction and Interviewing Skills (Topic Project #1)
In this document, you can find a project that I did in DH02 to help us improve on our introductions to the client and their health/dental history interview. This was an exciting project to do as it prepares us for client care and allowed us to get feedback from our group members in what we could do better. This project was a little bit difficult as we had to use our imagination to create issues and pretend to be talking to a client. This project allowed me to discover how connected I need to be with a client to gain their trust to open up about their concerns. From this project I learned that there are many different ways you can go about communicating with a client, and to make sure you understand how they feel and guide your talk in ways it wont upset them. This project connects to clinic when we start taking clients of our own and helps us prepare so we have a basis to go off of.
Explanations of Procedures (Topic Project #2)
In this document, you can find another project I did in DH02 to help us get comfortable with explaining different procedures and gaining informed consent from clients. This was a nice project to do as it was a nice refresher for me. this project was fairly easy for me as I routinely did informed consent as a dental assistant. It was nice to go over the basics for informed consent as I found in practice sometimes you skip out on some of the basic things such as taking blood pressure or going over health history as sometimes we assume is a given. This project allowed me to discover different ways and wordings to explain things in layman's terms and to gain informed consent without sounding robotic. This connects to client care as we will have to get good at going over explanations and gaining informed consent.