2024 WVDHA Fall Annual Session
Sat, Sep 21
|BridgeValley CTC Advanced Technology Cen
Join us for MEDICAL EMERGENCIES and OPIOIDS & SUBSTANCE ABUSE topics featuring Michelle Klenk, RDH, EdD, on September 21, 2024 at Bridgevalley CTC—South Charleston Campus! We will finish the day with in-person NARCAN TRAINING. Registration includes: Light Breakfast, Lunch, & 6CEU!
Time & Location
Sep 21, 2024, 8:00 AM
BridgeValley CTC Advanced Technology Cen, 2001 Union Carbide Drive, South Charleston, WV 25303, USA
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About the Event
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Session #1: MEDICAL EMERGENCIES: PREPARE FOR THE WORST/WORK FOR THE BEST (3CEU)
Learning Objectives:
- Identify medical emergency prevention strategies applicable to all patient interactions.
- Assess office protocols for prevention of medical emergencies.
- Identify medical emergencies commonly encountered in the dental office environment.
- Implement management strategies for medical emergencies commonly encountered in the dental office environment.
- Evaluate office protocols and emergency drugs and equipment for adequacy in prevention and management of medical emergencies commonly encountered in the dental office environment.
Session #2: OPIOIDS, SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND THE DENTAL HYGIENE: PROCESS OF CARE (2CEU)
Learning Objectives:
- Assess dental hygiene patients for substance abuse disorders, recognizing general, extraoral and intraoral oral signs and symptoms.
- Develop a dental hygiene diagnosis based upon assessment findings related to substance abuse.
- Develop a dental hygiene care plan for patients suffering from substance abuse disorders.
- Contribute assessment findings to the dental care plan for patients suffering from substance abuse disorders.
- Implement dental hygiene care to accommodate for or address substance abuse related conditions.
- Assess office policies for management of patients suspected of abusing substances.
- Discuss legal and ethical implications of treating patients suspected of abusing.
- Investigate local resources to assist in care for those patients involved in abusing substances.
Session #3: NARCAN TRAINING (1 CEU)
Presented by Lindsay Acree, Pharm.D., AE-C, Executive Director of Experiential Education Pharmacist-In-Charge, PharmUC Patient Care Clinic Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Practice Department University of Charleston School of Pharmacy