Dental nurse Review

My role is a busy yet rewarding one. I will arrive at work set up my surgery and the decontamination room. I will ensure the medical emergency equipment is charged and ready for use. I will offer chairside assistance and ensure my instruments and surgery and clean/sterile

I have learned about patient management and medical emergencies. I feel my experience taught me a lot about the NHS and how it works

The programme was good and I felt I learned a lot from it. I also feel the actual hands on work was invaluable too. I did feel that due to Covid I didn’t have the best support from aspirations but obviously Covid affected this.

I feel there was good structure and my practice gave us study days which was very helpful. I do feel at times I had to wait around for workbooks and towards the end had to fill in gaps that were missed during the course

My employer offered a lot of support. We had study days and lots of help. There were a lot of trainees when I started too so we could all help one another.

The training provider offered a lot of support towards the end. In the beginning it was hard because the trainers kept leaving. My last assessor was fabulous and got me through

I feel that the training sometimes was very by the book which does not necessarily match up with real life experience in practice with dentists and it’s very important to see both aspects and know how things should be getting done. For example using silicone putty for 2nd denture imps.

No. We have team building days and some of the girls and I often walk our dogs together but there is no official activities

Yes

My experience in the end was great once I had a proper assesor. I also have noticed an improvement for the new trainees

I’d say to make sure you keep regular contact with assessor and ensure that you keep up with your work.