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Dental Nurse Careers

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WORK ENVIRONMENT:-

As a dental nurse you will give support and help to the dentist and other dental care experts all through dental activities.

Your duties and responsibilities will generally include:

  • Preparing and organizing the surgery
  • Maintaining sterile condition in the surgery, following heath and safety strategies
  • Take away the saliva and water from the mouth of the patients

  • Purify instruments
  • Giving instruments to the therapist, dentist or hygienist
  • Ensuring the patients is stress-free and contented at all times
  • Arrange material for instance, to make fillings
  • Assisting the dentist in maintaining information about each patients
  • Performing stock control

In nursing instructor, your duties might also involve working at the reception area (especially in busy period), taking payments, and reserving appointments, greeting and reassuring patients.

With qualification and training, you might be involved in supervising patient's safety when they are knocked out.

QUALIFICATION, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:-

You will not require any qualification to begin as a apprentice dental nurse, though, several employer or course providers will prefer you to have at least 4 GCSEs (A-C) including Science, English and Mathematics. Your talent and general appropriateness for the work are also significant.

Once you are in a telemetry nurse position, you can learn recreational for a General Dental Council (GDC) standard qualification and registration. A relevant course includes:

  • National Certificate in Dental Nursing honored by the National Examining Board for Dental Nurses (NEBDN)
  • National Vocational Qualifications in Dental Nursing (Level 3)

You can also be eligible by taking a full-time foundation degree or Certificate of Higher Education in dental nursing. See the website of UCAS to know more about the courses. Certificate of Higher Education is presented by Cardiff University on part-time basis.

You can get associated with the course provider and awarding bodies on the site of GDC.

You can enter this field with the help of Apprenticeship Scheme. The variety of Apprenticeship available in your area will be based on the home job market and the various types of skills required by the employers from their personnel. Get more information on www.apprenticeship.org.uk.

To do the job in the community dental service, you might require a driving license to travel connecting centers.

TRAINING DETAILS:-

You will generally get the training from your employer on the job. If you are not registered with the GDC, you will also start working for a GDC recognized qualification, like the Dental Nursing NVQ (Level 3) or NEBDN National Certification.

Courses contain theoretical and practical work and you will cover up with the areas like:

  • Taking care of the patients, mixing material for fillings and keeping proper records
  • Dentistry methods like healing dentistry, sedation, oral surgery, orthodontics and dental radiography
  • Dealing with infection which includes avoidance of cross infection, sterilization and drugs storage

For all the information on characteristic of registration and adequate qualification, see the GDC site. Being a registered dental nurse you can build your skills and knowledge, for e.g. by learning for NEBDN post-qualification certification. These are assessable in many specialist areas like:

  • Dental Sedation Nursing
  • Orthodontic Nursing
  • Oral Health Nursing
  • Special Care Dental Nursing

SKILLS and KNOWLEDGE:-

  • A curiosity in wellbeing of your patients
  • Superior team working skills
  • A supple and positive approach of working
  • Excellent sensible skills
  • Good vision
  • A cool, comforting and confident manner
  • Ability to communicate well with people, including kids and inhabitants with extraordinary requirements
  • Excellent organizational skills

SALARY AND OTHER BENEFITS:-

  • Dental nurses can begin on around $ 15,500 p.a.
  • Dental nurse specialist and team leaders can be paid up to $ 27,500.
  • If experienced this can grow to around $ 21,900.
  • Dental nurse manager can get around $ 34,500.

WORKING CONDITIONS:-

You will basically work for 8 hours in a day, Monday to Friday. You might be anticipated to work outside of these hours, for instance, if your surgical treatment opens during evening to provide accommodation patient's requirements. Part-time work is also obtainable.

You will have to wear a surgical gloves and uniform for protection. Mask and safety glasses can also be used to decrease the cross infection risk.

DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES:-

You will get work in hospitals, general dental practice, with the community dental service, and university and in the industry. You can also be trained as a dental nurse in the Armed Forces.

If you are having experience as a dental nurse it will be beneficial for your job. See the job profile of the Dental Therapist or Dental Hygienist for more details. You can also make progress in the position like nurse team manager, dental practice manager or team leader.

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Jobs are promoted in the local press all the way through the offices, job center and on the sites of British Association of Dental Nurses, NHS Job.
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