Advancing Professional Growth: Self-Reflection Techniques for Dental Hygienists

About This Course

This dental hygiene course explores the importance of self-reflection in enhancing professional skills and patient outcomes. Learn how to facilitate reflective practice, handle challenges, and apply insights for personal and professional growth. Legal and ethical implications are also covered.

Why Take This Course?

The course addresses the challenge that many UK dental professionals face in terms of self-reflection. Self-reflection is an essential practice in the dental hygiene profession as it helps professionals assess their skills, knowledge, and practices critically. However, many professionals struggle with implementing self-reflection in their routine due to various reasons, including a lack of understanding of the concept and its benefits, time constraints, and the fear of confronting their mistakes and weaknesses. This course offers a comprehensive guide to self-reflection, equipping professionals with the necessary tools and skills to embrace it as an essential aspect of their practice.

The course on self-reflection in dental hygiene can be highly beneficial as it covers the importance of self-reflection in the profession, tools for effective self-reflection, and steps to facilitate reflective practice. It also covers legal and ethical implications of self-reflection and teaches how to apply reflective insights for professional growth.

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How This Course Supports GDC Enhanced Dental CPD

“Dental professionals have a duty to keep their knowledge and skills up to date. A primary qualification is only the first step in their education and development which should last throughout their professional life” General Dental Council

Learning Objectives	Anticipated Outcomes
1: By the end of this course, learners will be able to identify and navigate various ethical dilemmas common in dental practice.	#REF!
2: Upon completion, learners will have the capacity to understand and implement self-reflection as a tool for enhancing professional practice and decision making.
3: Participants will demonstrate their ability to use different tools and techniques that facilitate effective self-reflection, including mindfulness, journaling, feedback-seeking, and various reflective models.
4: By the final session, learners will have mastered the application of self-reflection in practical scenarios through case studies encompassing ethical dilemmas related to patient care, peer interactions, and practice management.
5: At the course’s conclusion, attendees will have developed the competency to foster a culture of self-reflection in their dental practice and understand the increasing relevance of self-reflection in the evolving landscape of ethical decision making in dentistry.

Regulatory Standards

GDC	CQC
✅ A – Effective Communication ✅ B – Effective Management ✅ C – Maintenance in Field of Practice ✅ D – Maintenance in Patient Confidence	✅ Caring ✅ Effective ✅ Leadership ✅ Responsive ✅ Safe

🕐 90 minutes of Enhanced Dental CPD

Course Description

The course outlines the concept and principles of self-reflection, its importance in the dental hygiene profession, and tools for effective self-reflection. It also covers the benefits of self-reflection, including boosting self-awareness, enhancing professional skills, improving patient outcomes, and promoting personal and professional growth. The course teaches steps to facilitate reflective practice, laying groundwork for constructive feedback and peer engagement, keeping a reflective journal, and handling challenges of self-reflection. It also covers legal and ethical implications of self-reflection, including guidelines on continuous professional development, ethical considerations, patient privacy and confidentiality, and informed consent. Finally, the course teaches how to procure value from self-reflection by applying reflective insights, continual reassessment and learning, incorporating reflective practice in daily routine, and using self-reflection as a tool for professional growth.

Course Outline

Section 1

This course covers the concept, importance, and principles of self-reflection in the dental hygiene profession. It also examines the benefits of self-reflection in boosting self-awareness, enhancing professional skills and knowledge, improving patient outcomes, and promoting personal and professional growth. The course provides tools for effective self-reflection, steps to facilitate reflective practice, and discusses legal and ethical implications of self-reflection. Finally, the course explores how to apply reflective insights, continual reassessment and learning, and incorporating reflective practice in daily routine to procure value from self-reflection.

Section 2

Section 2 of this course explores the benefits of self-reflection in the dental hygiene profession, including boosting self-awareness, enhancing professional skills and knowledge, improving patient outcomes, and promoting personal and professional growth. It also covers implementing reflective practice, including steps to facilitate it, keeping a reflective journal, and handling challenges that may arise. Additionally, the section discusses the legal and ethical implications of self-reflection, such as patient privacy and confidentiality, and suggests ways to procure value from reflective insights, including continual reassessment and learning and incorporating reflective practice into daily routines.

Section 3

Section 3 of the course covers the principles and benefits of self-reflection in the dental hygiene profession, including boosting self-awareness, enhancing professional skills and knowledge, and improving patient outcomes. It also provides steps to implement reflective practice, handle challenges, and discusses the legal and ethical implications of self-reflection. Finally, the section emphasizes applying reflective insights, continual reassessment and learning, and the role of self-reflection in career advancement to procure value from self-reflection as a tool for professional growth.

Section 4

Section 4 of the course focuses on the legal and ethical implications of self-reflection, including guidelines from the General Dental Council on continuous professional development, ethical considerations in reflective practice, patient privacy and confidentiality, and the concept of informed consent. Additionally, a case study explores potential ethical and legal pitfalls in self-reflection.

Section 5

Section 5 of the course covers the application and benefits of self-reflection, including how to apply reflective insights, continual reassessment and learning, the role of self-reflection in career advancement, and how to incorporate reflective practice into daily routine. The section concludes with a recap of self-reflection as a tool for professional growth.

Course Reviews

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Very informative course that taught me how to use self-reflection as a tool for improving my skills and patient outcomes. I appreciate the legal and ethical considerations that were discussed as well.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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I found this course to be well-structured and easy to follow. The step-by-step process for facilitating reflective practice was particularly helpful. I feel more equipped to incorporate self-reflection into my daily routine.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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As a practicing dentist, I have taken many courses over the years, but this one stands out for its practicality. The tools provided for keeping a reflective journal and handling challenges were very useful. Highly recommend.

✅ Met Course Objectives

✅ Met Course Outcomes

✅ Would Recommend

✅ Had Positive Impact

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