American Dental Hygienists Association (ADHA) 2024 Annual Conference
American Dental Hygienists Association (ADHA) 2024 Annual Conference is organized by American Dental Hygienists Association (ADHA) and will be held from Jul 26 - 28, 2024 at New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America.
ADHA24 Specialized Tracks
The Roles of the Dental Hygienist
Clinician is the primary role for many practicing dental hygienists. But it’s only one of seven different categories of dental hygiene roles, including Clinician, Corporate, Public Health, Researcher, Educator, Administrator and Entrepreneur. This Education Track explores each of these roles, their requirements, responsibilities, and career opportunities.
Topics Include: working in different practice settings, careers with dual roles, workforce models, educational requirements, increasing access to care, evidence-based decision-making, managing resources, communication, leadership, professional development, using these roles to prevent and control oral diseases
Self-Care
When was the last time you took time for yourself? While it’s important to focus on the health of our patients, it is equally essential that we make time for our own well-being. If we’re not well, it’s much harder to guide others to wellness. This education track is important for you and for your patients. We’ll look at ways to forge a path to emotional, psychological, and social well-being with the goals of achieving mental health, handling stress well and making healthy choices at every stage of life.
Topics Include: managing personal well-being, meditation, mindfulness, managing burnout, screening for depression and anxiety in dental practice settings, substance abuse and recovery programs
Oral Health Literacy
As part of dental hygiene care, we provide oral health instruction to our patients. But do our patients really understand what we’re explaining? Oral health literacy refers to an individual’s ability to obtain, process and understand the basic health information and services they need to make appropriate health decisions. In this education track we’ll explore how to improve our patients’ oral health outcomes by improving communication with our patients.
Topics Include: relationship between oral health status and oral health literacy, trends in oral health literacy, integration of oral health literacy with clinical care, challenges of oral health literacy into medical-dental integration
It’s Mandatory
State boards often require key topics for licensure renewal and CODA requires faculty to take educational methodology courses on a regular basis. Use the opportunities in this education track to cover those topics that help meet your licensure and CODA requirements. Boards may require it but we’ll deliver the content in a way that leaves you feeling more knowledgeable and confident in your profession, too!
Topics Include: educational methodology, infection control, implicit bias, opioids, ethics, child abuse, CPR, chemical dependency/tobacco cessation, cultural competency, domestic violence, medical error, HIV/AIDS, pain management, human trafficking, bioterrorism
Learning Formats
We understand that adult learners have different study methods and education preferences. The content offered at ADHA’s Annual Conference attempts to meet the diverse learning needs of our conference attendees. The variety of learning formats supports a range of instructional methods giving attendees more control over setting their priorities and choosing the right content, materials and methods to match their learning styles, objectives and experience preferences.