XHF 127 - Oral Health Access Supervision Program (OHASP)
Course Description
Online Course. The Oral Health Access Supervision Program (OHASP) allows dental hygienists with additional required education to practice under relaxed supervision in certain designated underserved locations outside of the dental office without the presence of a dentist. The OHASP allows dentists and dental hygienists to reach out into traditionally underserved locations like nursing homes, schools in dental health resource shortage areas, Head Start programs, WIC clinics, and other locations to serve populations who may have had difficulty obtaining dental care. This course will prepare dental hygienists to practice dental hygiene under the oral health access supervision program (OHASP) following the State of Ohio guidelines. The course outlines the laws and rules that allow a dental hygienist to provide dental hygiene services to patients when the supervising dentist is not present.
This is an eight-hour online course divided into five modules. It will cover topics such as treatment of geriatric, medically compromised, developmentally disabled and pediatric patients; common oral conditions; medical considerations; medications; behavioral management; recognition of abuse; recognition of what constitutes a medically significant change to a patient’s medical or dental history; infection control; and ethical and legal considerations.
This course meets Revised Code 4715.372(B)(2)(b), and all recordkeeping practices outlined in board rule 4715-9-01, Revised Code 4715.361 to 4715.375 required by the Ohio State Dental Board in association with the OHASP.