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The Purple Guide
Shirley Gutkowski, RDH, BSDH and Amy
Nieves, RDH saw a need to assist new and recent graduates
through the transition between college and the real world.
Our book The Purple Guide: Developing Your Dental Hygiene Career
will answer most of your questions, such as:
Insurance codes
Tips on placing sealants alone, and over
one hundred more tips
How to ask for a raise
Explaining periodontal disease to patients
Learn from our own personal experiences
Order your own copy at: www.rdhpurpleguide.com
Custom Resume Service for dental hygienists. Contact Shirley at crosslinkpresent@aol.com for more details.
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Shirley Gutkowski, RDH, BSDH is a dental hygienist who practiced full time general dental hygiene in Madison, WI from 1986 to 2003. She received her RDH from Madison Area Technical College and earned her Baccalaureate Degree in Dental Hygiene from Marquette University in 1999.
Gutkowski, president of the Wisconsin Dental Hygienists' Association year 2006 - 07, continues to stretch her own boundaries. Her wit and ability to find comfort outside of the box makes her a favorite of free thinkers across the nation. Ms. Gutkowski draws on her experience of a seasoned dental hygienist as well as living her adult life in a testosterone factory (wife of over 25 years and mother of five sons).
In 2003 Shirley gave up her clinical career to focus on her company Cross Link Presentations, consulting, writing and speaking. Her passion in educating dentistry and medicine in the links between the health of the oral cavity with the rest of the body drove this decision. She believes in Integrating Oral Health with Systemic Health.
July 2004 debuts her column "Connectivity" in
peer reviewed
Contemporary Oral Hygiene. Gutkowski
became nationally known in the dental community
through her monthly column "Thinking Sharply",
in the most widely read dental hygiene magazine,
RDH from September 2001 to June
2004.
Gutkowski has had numerous feature articles in RDH, and Contemporary Oral Hygiene. The Purple Guide: Developing Your Clinical Dental Hygiene Career is Ms. Gutkowski's first foray into the world of book publishing. The book is co-authored with Amy Nieves RDH and is geared toward new and newly graduated dental hygienists. In 2003 she won the APEX award for writing her series of articles on dental care in Diabetes Self-Management magazine. Gutkowski is a member of Toastmasters International, Sjogren's Foundation, Wisconsin Regional Writers Association, and International Woman Writers Guild, and is active on many Internet lists. Shirley's desire to teach nurses and medical staff about the importance of oral health has prompted her to develop courses for them as well.
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