Trudie Dawson discusses the art of active listening and the skill of reading body language
Patients are full of interesting information gleaned from the internet. Here, dental therapist Melonie Prebble wades through the good, the bad and the...
A look at how the dental nurse’s skill in charting can help to identify the correct tooth in order to avoid a detrimental outcome
How to ensure the safe use, storage and disposal of controlled drugs
In late 2017, NHS England released guidelines recommending that health professionals ask all patients about their sexual orientation in order to...
Are your clinical notes contemporaneous and capable of an audit trail?
There is a very good argument for dentists to delegate the job of record keeping to dental nurses. Here's why…
Concerns about a colleague's conduct or competence can present difficult dilemmas. This article illustrates a problem, the implications for the nurse...
Dental nurse registration has given professional rights but also responsibilities and obligations as to what can and what cannot be ethically and...
With more and more tasks and few practices paying overtime, how can dental nurses beat the clock and streamline their workload? Dave Hancock counts...
Some patients consider records are ‘theirs’ and should be available for them to take away, if requested. But what does this mean for you, asks Andrew...
