Workplace issues/your health

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How to draw up your career plans

Student dental nurse Alis Fleming notes her top 10 tips to help you to write your own future

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Workplace stress takes its toll on NHS workers amid COVID-19

A new survey reveals that 43% of frontline staff have found it hard to stay positive over the last six months with workplace stress singled out as the...

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What lies ahead? ‘Potential wave’ of dental nurse job losses or upcoming recruitment challenges?

​A dental professor has voiced concerns about what he sees as a ‘potential wave’ of dental nurse jobs being put at risk within a profession plagued by...

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Is dental nursing a pain in the neck?

Dental nurse Preetee Hylton stands up for patient care, while Mary Kristy offers some exercises to mitigate those health risks

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‘I got COVID-19 when I was redeployed but would volunteer again’

In the November issue, community dental nurse Michelle Williams kindly shares her pandemic experience in which she contracted coronavirus whilst...

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How to prepare for a second wave of coronavirus

Having been one of the first dental nurses to have experienced a second lockdown whilst working in Leicester, Louise Smith offers some insightful...

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Are you a COVID-19 chameleon?

Dental Sky’s Caroline Dabiran considers how successful dental practices can adapt to change in the current climate

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The missing pieces

How are you putting dentistry back together again? Joe Earl considers the best approach to delivering care in these puzzling times

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Take action this Stoptober

The need to help patients quit smoking has never been more relevant, says Julie Deverick

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Mindfulness for dental nurses

Dental nurse and yoga teacher Johanna Horvath shares her insight into how to create peace in everyday dentistry

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Health e-Hub helping dental nurses' wellbeing

Balancing everyday life together with the requirements of work and home can create pressures for all of us, particularly in these challenging times.

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Free flu jab scheme fails to include dental teams

NHS England will not be extending free flu jabs to cover dental professionals, despite urging frontline workers to have one as soon as possible.