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
Exploring Transitions Publishing 2004 05
The Purple Guide: Developing
Your Clinical Dental Hygiene Career
Diabetes
Self-Management
2002 03 Power brushes
2002 09 Beyond Brushing - Other Oral Care
Tools
2002 11 All About Toothpastes, Toothbrushes
and Mouthrinses
2003 01 Choosing a Dental Care Professional
2003 05 Disease, Treatment, and Oral Health
RDH magazine Column
2001 09 Leaches in Our Language
2001 10 Over Treatment? What's Overtreatment?
2001 11 Critical Thinking
2001 12 Dental Phobia = Patient Abuse
2002 01 Why Patients Expect Polishing
2002 02 Nursing Home's View of Oral Care
2002 03 Whose Treatment is it Anyway?
2002 04 Hygienists Sued for Periodontal
Treatment
2002 06 The 'As If' Attitude
2002 07 Creative Anticipation
2002 08 You Wanna Pop?
2002 09 A Tingling Thought About TMJ
2002 10 Tiers For Our Trade
2002 11 Thirteen Wonderful Syllables
2002 12 Fine art of reading research
2003 01 Unstuck from the old routine
2003 02 The Team or The Body
2003 03 Chew on This
2003 04 Who's Talking
2003 05 Sexism and the Words We Use
2003 06 When Push Comes to Shove
2003 07 A rat in the house migh eat the ice
cream
2003 08 The pressure of premed
2003 09 A simple 30 second step
2003 10 The great equalizer
2003 11 Body decorations, who knew?
2003 12 A glance out the windshield
2004 01 The best we have are no cavities
RDH Magazine Features
2001 02 Mrs. Slovotski's Visit
2001 06 Bringing Physicians Into the Fold
2001 07 The Rage in Sports Fashion
2001 09 Raising the Level a Notch Higher
2001 10 Whether They Need it Or Not
2002 04 Can We Talk? We Sure Can
2002 07 Dealing With Decay
2002 08 Perio Breakthroughs
2002 10 If Only
2002 10 Ahhh... Those Bubbles
2002 11 The Hard Labor Behind Toothbrushes
2003 04 (Supplement) The Biofilm Revolution
2003 08 If Only 2
2004 01 What Cost Prevention
2004 01 Are they out of business yet? With
Larry Burnett, DDS
2004 05 The Washington Advantage
2004 06 What Ever Happened to Walter?
Dentistry.com
Nursing Case Management
(March/April 2000)
“Dental Needs Assessments Necessary in
Today’s
Healthcare Environment”
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Programs
The Ultimate
Prevention Plan – Conception to College
The Ultimate
Prevention Plan – Boomers and Beyond
The Saving of
Enamel
Earth, Wind and
Fire: The Natural Elements of Dental Hygiene
Wisconsin Area Dental Hygienists' Association
editorial board Professional Forum
President Madison Area Dental Hygienists'
Association
Wisconsin Dental Hygienists' Association - Trustee
Dental Hygiene Onsite - Newsletter Publisher
Educator - GC America
Educator - Rembrandt
Educator - Laclede Products
Tapest for the
Blind
Volunteer local
public television
Education Marquette University BSDH,
1999
Madison Area Technical College RDH, 1986
Brookfield East High School, 1976
Attended
(this is a highly modified list,
Wisconsin has no CE requirements and therefore no
need to keep accurate records)
Dr. Bhashkar 1989, 1992, 1998, 2002
Dr. Drisko courses in Milwaukee, WI
ADHA Annual Session 2001, 2002, 2004
International Evidence Based Dentistry meeting
Atlanta 2003
AAP meeting San Francisco 2003
Under One Roof, Denver, 2001; Chicago, 2002; Las
Vegas, 2003; Chicago, 2003; Costa Mesa, 2004;
Norfolk VA, 2004
GenR8TNext Marco Island, FL 2004
Numerous other
meetings, and speaker events usually three or four
per year.
Shirley is President of the Wisconsin Dental
Hygienists' Association
Accreditation means that
you don't have to be an accredited entity. Shirley can come
and speak to your group practice and provide you with
official CE credits.
Join AADH
at
www.aadh.org
