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Dental hygiene students are discussing their initial experience in the preclinical dental hygiene course. Before lunch, the students completed a health history for a student partner. One student served as the operator, and one student acted as the patient. The health history is the standard form used for all patients in the dental hygiene clinic. One of the students at the lunch table begins talking about the health information that he solicited from his “student-patient.” Which of the following ethical principles is the student violating?

Which clinical dental hygiene conceptual practice model emphasizes the client’s perceptions of and reactions to their own health status?

Engineering controls are one strategy to reduce workplace exposure to hazards. Engineering controls may best be described as

Which of the following Federal Agencies regulates disinfectants used on clinical contact surfaces?

Housekeeping surfaces require routine cleaning unless visibly soiled with blood and do not require disinfection after each patient. Which of the following would be considered a housekeeping surface in a dental clinical setting?

Discussing with patients the need to stop smoking, would be which part of the Oral Health-Related Quality of Life Model?

Wincing or squinting of the eyes likely means a deficit in which human need related to dental hygiene care?

A few weeks ago, a group of sophisticated computer hackers were able to use new hacking techniques to breach the encrypted computer servers of the Social Security Administration; and in turn steal the Social Security Numbers of hundreds of millions Americans.  The above situation best falls under which classification of risk? 

  The Greeks became literate again during the ninth century B.C.E. by adopting  

  Spartan polity hinged on the precarious relationship with the ________, who outnumbered the Spartiates by ten to one.