Mentoring, reflection and PDPs

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Are you a visionary?

This series continues to explore the leadership skills of the dental nurse. In this issue, John Fowler asks: do you light up your team?

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How to… be more efficient

With more and more tasks and few practices paying overtime, how can dental nurses beat the clock and streamline their workload? Dave Hancock counts...

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‘If I had learned the truth at 17’

Kathryn Marshall reflects on her career and considers how she would have done things differently, knowing what she knows now – it may even help you...

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Mindfulness – a power boost for a busy lifestyle

Glenys Bridges considers how harnessing this philosophical practice may redress the balance when the many demands of your professional world take over

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Leadership and mentoring

This series continues to explore the leadership skills of the dental nurse. With John Fowler

Mentoring and you

Fiona Ellwood et al, 2016 explore dental care professionals' (DCPs') awareness of mentorship and clinical governance as part of a local professional...

The world is your oyster

Laura Horton lives and breathes dentistry. Celebrating 20 years in the industry, she believes the sky is the limit for those dental nurses wishing to...

Dentistry – in all weathers

James Ashton gets some dental advice from specialist registrar Rebecca Willis and dental nurse Kelly Bent..

7 ways to jeopardise your registration

Dental nurse Celeste Barker, a member of the GDC Fitness to Practise panel, offers you an easy-to-reference ‘safety’ list. Test how much you know…

What makes a good leader?

Last month, Nicki Rowland described a modern practice manager (PM) as an ‘executive’ and explained what it means to work in an executive capacity. In...

‘Dental handmaidens’ no more

With the role of the dental nurse on the cusp of something exciting, Fiona Ellwood extols the virtues of self-belief and ambition and reveals why the...

Hard times?

Sean Magee considers the crisis in Scotland where there's currently a critical shortage of skilled and qualified dental nurses