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Effective time management: tips for dental nurses

How well do you or your team manage your routine on a day-to-day basis to ensure that it runs as effectively as possible? How often do you review why things did not go to plan? This article provides some effective tips to help you to achieve better time management

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Reflection. Part 1: the importance of reflection

This six-part series will explore and discuss reflection. It will examine some of the techniques that you can use to aid reflection, how it can work in clinical practice, education and management. It will look at portfolios, reflective learning, helping others to reflect, and the importance of refle

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The academic dental nurse

Kelly Henderson discusses the new Foundation Degree in Advanced Nursing, and the challenges and rewards that entering academia offers

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Personal development planning: a voyage of discovery

Personal development plans (PDPs) are a regulatory requirement for all DCPs, but what should they include? The PDP described here is based on some of the theories of development planning and it is hoped that you may find it useful in making your own PDP a more comprehensive and valuable tool

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A fast track welcome to dentistry

The need for an expanded skills mix within dental teams can lead to the decision to bring in new team members with the required skills from outside of the dental sector. The dental team benefits from a new skills range and the new team member learns new dentistry skills

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The professional image of dental nursing

A professional narrative is a collection of stories created to illustrate the work of professionals. For dental nurses, constructing a professional identity, and gaining recognition by society, can be achieved through creating a professional voice that tells stories about the valuable work dental nu

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The modern day dental nurse – the pathway to nurse-led clinics

Rachel Hughes has successfully implemented a nurse-led clinic at her practice based solely on using the extended Scope of Practice. Here she discusses what exactly extended Scope of Practice is and how other nurses can use it to develop as individuals and to the benefit of their patients and practic

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The modern day dental nurse

In this article, Laura Horton discusses how she became an upskilled dental nurse and how this can be a reality for so many dental nurses today as Scope of Practice allows dental nurses to become providers in their own right

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Looking to the future: the changing role of the dental nurse

This is the first article of a two-part series that will discuss the changing role of the dental nurse and the new opportunities that these changes will bring. This article will examine how the role is changing and how the Scope of Practice is contributing towards this change

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Neuro-Linguistic Programming: conversations for change

All too often, an individual's resolve to change unhealthy lifestyle choices follows a serious health scare about their own health, or that of someone close to them. This article considers the value of Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques to help patients who want to make and maintain lifestyle c