PA Dental Hygiene Jurisprudence study guide

The Pennsylvania State Board of Dentistry regulates the practice of dentistry in the Commonwealth through licensure, registration, certification, and discipline. Among the professions it regulates are dentists, dental hygienists, expanded function dental assistants, restricted faculty licensees, and public health dental hygiene practitioners, along with the unlicensed practice of those professions. For a dental hygiene candidate, jurisprudence study means learning the statutory and regulatory framework that governs that license: the Dental Practice Act (Act 76 of 1933) and the Board's regulations, with the Board's own page pointing candidates to the Law, the Regulations, the Act 48 Schedule of Civil Penalties, and the fee schedule. The Board also frames its disciplinary role around unprofessional conduct - deciding case by case whether a professional departed from, or failed to conform to, an ethical or quality standard of the profession - and reminds all Pennsylvania licensees to review the requirements of professional licensure set out in the Practice Act and Board Regulations, so that clinical judgment is exercised in good faith and patient care is consistent with the standards of acceptable and prevailing practice. Topics on this exam: Pennsylvania Dental Practice Act (Act 76 of 1933) and Board Regulations (49 Pa. Code Chapter 33) and Board Authority, Licensure, and Discipline (unprofessional conduct; standards of acceptable and prevailing practice). The PA Dental Hygiene Jurisprudence study guide has 2 sections and about 752 words.