NH Dental Jurisprudence study plan

Map the regulatory hierarchy of New Hampshire dental practice oversight, from statute to board administrative rules to board-issued guidance, in a single diagram

Outline the board's core powers: licensure, license renewal, investigation, and disciplinary authority

Diagram the license renewal cycle and continuing-education obligations using only official state sources

List and compare every route to initial licensure (examination, licensure by credentials/endorsement, and any temporary or limited pathways)

Build a one-page authority map that you can redraw from memory

Distinguish unlicensed practice, practice on a lapsed or inactive license, and practice outside the scope of one's license

Trace the complaint-to-disposition disciplinary flow and label each stage with who acts and what authority they exercise

Catalogue the statutory and rule-based grounds for discipline into a tiered list by severity

Explain in writing the licensee's duty to report specified conduct and the consequences of failing to report

Compare the penalties available to the board (reprimand, probation, suspension, revocation, civil penalty) and match each to a sample fact pattern

Define each level of supervision used in the state rules and state the conditions under which each level applies

Assign a supervision level to at least 25 specific clinical and administrative tasks performed by hygienists and assistants

Differentiate delegated duties from duties that may never be delegated, and write a short rationale for each borderline task

Explain how supervision requirements change across settings and in the absence of the supervising dentist

Identify the documentation a supervising dentist must create to lawfully delegate

Sequence the complete instrument reprocessing cycle from point of use to storage, and state the failure point at each step

Compare manual, ultrasonic, and automated cleaning methods by indication and limitation

Explain the three types of sterilization monitoring and what action each type triggers when it fails

Describe the occupational exposure control plan: exposure incident steps, post-exposure evaluation, and recordkeeping

Rank common infection-control violations by the risk they pose to patients

Outline the licensee's public-health reporting duties and the timelines attached to each

Explain dental unit waterline maintenance and the testing records a practice must retain

Specify PPE selection, respiratory protection, and waste-handling requirements by task type

Draft the documentation an office must produce to prove compliance during an inspection

Distinguish recordkeeping duties owed to the board from those owed to other agencies

Break informed consent into its required elements and write patient-facing language for each

State record retention, access, amendment, and release requirements, and separate state rules from federal privacy rules

Define patient abandonment and list the steps required to lawfully end a provider-patient relationship

Identify prohibited advertising, fee-splitting, and boundary violations using short fact patterns

Explain the limits of confidentiality and the situations that override it

Apply a structured ethical decision framework to at least 15 mixed vignettes spanning scope, consent, records, and reporting

Distinguish the impaired-practitioner reporting duty from the general misconduct reporting duty

Resolve conflicts between patient preference, employer pressure, and regulatory obligation in writing

Re-test the weakest delegation and supervision items from Week 3 and document what changed

Explain aloud, without notes, the five rules you are most likely to confuse on exam day

Complete two full-length timed practice exams under exam conditions

Categorize every missed item by domain and by error type (knowledge gap, misread, rule confusion)

Re-study only the highest-frequency error categories and rewrite those rules in your own words

Recite the regulatory hierarchy, the supervision levels, and the disciplinary flow from memory

Finalize a one-page exam-day reference sheet limited to rules you have repeatedly missed