CALIFORNIA RDH LAW AND ETHICS EXAM ALL WITH 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS JUST RELEASED

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CALIFORNIA RDH LAW AND ETHICS EXAM
ALL WITH 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS JUST RELEASED

Question: RDH Duties - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔DH assessment, Develop plan and implement DH
care plan, oral hygiene exam, counseling, and health screenings, local anesthesia, NO2, and soft
tissue curettage, apply non aerosol, non caustic topical agents, and duties of RDA if licensed
before January 2006




Question: Practice of RDH do not include - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Diagnosis and comprehensive
treatment planning, placing, condensing, carving, or removal of permanent restorations,
surgery or cutting on hard or soft tissues including but not limited to the removal of teeth and
the cutting and suturing of soft tissue, prescribing medications, and administering local or
general anesthesia or oral or parenteral conscious sedation except administer NO2




Question: RDH functions under General Supervision - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Prophy, SRP,
topical, therapeutic, and subgingival agents to control caries and perio, impressions for
bleaching trays, applying/activating whitening agents with non laser, light curing devices, any
duty that does not require direct supervision unless it would give rise to emergency situation




Question: RDH functions with no supervision - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Educational services, Oral
health training programs, Oral health screenings, Refer any screened patients to dentist for
comp exam,

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Question: RDH License validity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Expires every 2 years at midnight on last
day of birth month.




Question: Direct Supervision - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Dentist gives instructions and physically
present in building when treatment is being completed




Question: General Supervision - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Dentist gives instructions but does not
have to be present in the building when treatment is being completed




Question: Oral prophylasis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔preventive and therapeutic dental
procedures of bacterial debridement both supra and subgingivally of calculus, soft deposits, and
plaque, plus smoothing of tooth surfaces




Question: Change of address - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Report changes within 30 days




Question: Change of Name - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Report changes within 10 days




Question: Continue education for RDH - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔25 units of CE every 2 years and
is not required on first renewal. Max number of CE 8 in one day. 12 CE can be correspondence /

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online. 2 CE must be infection control, 2 most be in CA law. Retain receipts for up to 4 years for
audit purposes




Question: Instruments that penetrate oral tissues - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Critical instruments




Question: Instruments that contact but do not penetrate oral tissues - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔semi-critical instruments




Question: Instruments that only contact skin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔non-critical instruments




Question: Low level disinfectants kills - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔killing of some fungi and viruses
but does not inactivate TB




Question: Intermediate level disinfectants kills - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔killing most fungi and
viruses and inactivates TB




Question: High level disinfectant kills - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔all fungi and viruses except spores




Question: Sterilization kills - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔all fungi and viruses including spores

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Question: Sterilizers testing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔must be tested with biological indicator
weekly and results maintained for 1 year




Question: Child, Adult, and or Elderly abuse mandated reporting - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Report
if serious bodily harm, call law enforcement immediately and file written report within 2 hours
otherwise call and file written report within 24 hours. Report known or suspected abuse in a
long-term facility to state department of public health.




Question: Dental board can revoke, suspend, and or restrict license, reprimand, or place on
probation for - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Cheating or compromising integrity of board exams,
unprofessional conduct, incompetence, gross negligence or repeated acts of negligence in the
field, receiving license by mistake, conviction of crime substantially related to licensee's
qualifications, functions, or duties.




Question: Unprofessional conduct - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔obtaining fees by fraud or
misrepresentation. Performing or helping someone else preform DH unlawfully, helping
unlicensed person to practice dentistry or DH, sexual abuse, misconduct, or relations with a
patent that are substantially related to DH practice. Using fake name to practice, supplying
patients with goods for money given directly to RDH




Question: Veracity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔telling the truth and expecting it from others