Dental Hygienist Beliefs

Exceptional dental hygiene care practice can assure that my patients are able to preserve their smile for their lifetime. This is a commitment that involves both the health care provider and the patient. As the dental hygienist, my personal commitment should be to strive for excellent patient care and commitment to continuing education which allows professionals to expand their foundations of knowledge and stay au courant on new developments in this rapidly changing field. My first job was at the age of 18 where I worked part-time as a dental assistant while attending college. At that time, I had recently moved to this country from Brazil and my academic and career objectives were very unsettled. The experiences I encountered while working
Being self-aware and having the ability to recognize my own weaknesses is an important quality on its own. This has helped me achieve my objectives both in my academic and in my personal life because once I acknowledged my limitations and weaknesses, I was then able to work on improving them or seek help when I needed to. Morals are rules of conduct that distinguish what is right or wrong, while ethics is a system of morals. It is possible to have morals without ethics, but one cannot have ethics without morals. I take pride at being a moral and ethical person, which are both essential characteristics that all health care providers should possess. My experience with working directly with patients throughout the past years made me realize how much trust did both patients and employers/instructors had on me. As a health care worker, my duty is to always make the right choices and to place my patient’s welfare above my own
It allows you to influence the world around you and it allows you to develop leadership skills. Despite my numerous other weaknesses, my most conspicuous one has to be my petrifying fear of public speaking. For my first couple of years in college, I was under the false impression that I was done with having to do public speeches once I started dental hygiene school. To my misfortune, I learned right away that this could not be farther from the truth. Having such anxiety is definitely a disadvantage, but over the past semesters I have learned to acknowledge this weakness and accept that public speaking is inevitable and that I must learn how to cope with it and work harder to overcome my