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Reflection. Part 4: reflective management and learning

This series is exploring reflective practice as it relates to dental nursing. This article examines how you can use reflection to enhance your management role and how you learn from your experiences

Many readers of Dental Nursing will have the word ‘manager’ in their job title, such as practice manager, treatment room manager, or reception manager. For other dental nurses, management will be an implicit part of how they carry out their clinical role. Whatever your title and role, your status as qualified dental nurses, means that you are responsible for managing yourselves, other people, patients and a number of other valuable resources. To what extent do you think about and reflect upon your management responsibilities and decisions? Dental nurses are becoming more familiar with the practice of reflection, as it affects direct clinical care, but to what extent are you a reflective manager?

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