Full-Time
Dental Hygienist
Contentnea Health
No salary listed
Goldsboro, NC, USA
In Person
On-site in Snow Hill, North Carolina; serves Greene, Pitt and Pamlico counties in eastern NC.
Category
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
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Requirements
- Associate's Degree in Dental Hygiene.
- Current licensure as a Dental Hygienist in good standing with the North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners.
- Current Basic Life Support certification.
Responsibilities
- Provides preventative dental care to patients in consultation with dentist.
- Performs dental prophylaxis and/or scaling and root planing.
- Performs periodontal probing.
- Performs fluoride treatment and applies dental sealants as appropriate.
- Exposes and processes dental radiographs.
- Provides oral hygiene education to patients.
- Administers local dental anesthetic if certified.
- Documents clinical encounters in electronic health record within timelines in established policies and procedures.
- Seats and discharges patients, cleans and disinfects operatory between patients.
- Adheres to established scheduling templates in provision of patient care.
- Participates in quality metrics directives and departmental quality improvement projects.
- Maintains current knowledge of quality initiatives by regularly attending the practitioners’, clinical site and practice meetings, and reviewing internal communications and resources.
- Complies with Clinical Quality Measures expectations.
- Modifies workflows as determined by department to attain QI objectives.
- Consistently documents activities related to QI objectives.
- Supports dental operations.
- Assists chair side in delivery of dental treatment when staffing demands require.
- Participates in outreach and dental education programs as assigned.
- Assists Practice Manager with maintaining stock/monitoring hygiene supplies.
- Cleans and sterilizes dental instruments.