RDH law and ethics California
Exam
1. heat sterilization: How should you clean your slow speed hand peice between patients?
2. Integrity: When any health care provider acts with decency of care.
3. True: As of 2006 the RDH is eligible to receive a registered dental assistant license. True or False
4. At 12 midnight on the LAST day of the license's birth month, of a two year term.: When does an
RDH license expire?
5. You have 7 days to get the report in.: If a patient was to die in the dental facility, when should the
written report be completed and sent to the board?
6. 30 days: How long do you have to notify the boards if you have an address or e-mail change?
7. 10 days: How long do you have to notify the board if you have a name change?
8. The general standards of right and wrong that guide behavior within society-
: What is the fundamental principle of ethics?
9. Beneficence: What core value is the primary role in promoting the well being of others and engaging in health
promotion/disease prevention activities?
10. Veracity: Trusting that your patient is telling you the truth and that as a RDH, we tell them the truth.
11. Social trust, it's unprofessional conduct: What core value is being violated when the RDH has
a martini on their lunch?
12. Veracity: What core value is violated when the dental hygienist presents treatment that is clearly excessive?
13. Autonomy: The dental hygienist presents SRP treatment to the patient, and the patient responds with, "I don't
want to do that I just want the basic cleaning." What core value is the patient practicing?
14. responsibility: What fundamental principle is being used when we accept consequences of our actions or the failure to
act and are willing to make ethical choice and publicly aflrm them?
15. "signature" or "ID number & initials" of the licensed provider who performed treatment.: What
are the requirements for making notations in the patient's treatment record?
16. compassion: caring and the ability to identify with the patient's overall well-being. Relieving pain and
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suttering is a common attribute of dental practice. Acts of kindness and a sympathetic ear for the patient are all qualities of a caring, compassionate
dentist.
17. Compassion: When a patient comes in and expresses that she just had a death in the family, you listen
intently and then recommend to the patient she should reschedule her appointment, and doesn't perform treatment. What core value is
demonstrated?
18. Unprofessional conduct: The practice of accepting or receiving any commission or the rebating in any
form or manner of fees for professional services, radiographs, prescriptions, or other services or articles supplied to patients.
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Exam
1. heat sterilization: How should you clean your slow speed hand peice between patients?
2. Integrity: When any health care provider acts with decency of care.
3. True: As of 2006 the RDH is eligible to receive a registered dental assistant license. True or False
4. At 12 midnight on the LAST day of the license's birth month, of a two year term.: When does an
RDH license expire?
5. You have 7 days to get the report in.: If a patient was to die in the dental facility, when should the
written report be completed and sent to the board?
6. 30 days: How long do you have to notify the boards if you have an address or e-mail change?
7. 10 days: How long do you have to notify the board if you have a name change?
8. The general standards of right and wrong that guide behavior within society-
: What is the fundamental principle of ethics?
9. Beneficence: What core value is the primary role in promoting the well being of others and engaging in health
promotion/disease prevention activities?
10. Veracity: Trusting that your patient is telling you the truth and that as a RDH, we tell them the truth.
11. Social trust, it's unprofessional conduct: What core value is being violated when the RDH has
a martini on their lunch?
12. Veracity: What core value is violated when the dental hygienist presents treatment that is clearly excessive?
13. Autonomy: The dental hygienist presents SRP treatment to the patient, and the patient responds with, "I don't
want to do that I just want the basic cleaning." What core value is the patient practicing?
14. responsibility: What fundamental principle is being used when we accept consequences of our actions or the failure to
act and are willing to make ethical choice and publicly aflrm them?
15. "signature" or "ID number & initials" of the licensed provider who performed treatment.: What
are the requirements for making notations in the patient's treatment record?
16. compassion: caring and the ability to identify with the patient's overall well-being. Relieving pain and
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Exam
suttering is a common attribute of dental practice. Acts of kindness and a sympathetic ear for the patient are all qualities of a caring, compassionate
dentist.
17. Compassion: When a patient comes in and expresses that she just had a death in the family, you listen
intently and then recommend to the patient she should reschedule her appointment, and doesn't perform treatment. What core value is
demonstrated?
18. Unprofessional conduct: The practice of accepting or receiving any commission or the rebating in any
form or manner of fees for professional services, radiographs, prescriptions, or other services or articles supplied to patients.
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