The GDC's Scope of Practice document, first published in 2009 and updated and put online in 2013, states what dental nurses can do if ‘trained, competent and indemnified’. It goes on to list additional skills dental nurses could develop and additional skills if ‘carried out on prescription from, or under the direction of, another registrant’. The first category includes ‘assisting in the treatment of patients who are under conscious sedation’ and ‘tracing cephalographs’. The second includes taking radiographs and measuring and recording plaque indices. Dental nurses can also apply varnish, either on prescription from a dentist or direct as part of a ‘structured dental health programme’.
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