Many dental nurses attended the Dentistry Show and BDA Dental Conference at the NEC in Birmingham last month, with the Dental Nurse Forum providing plenty of learning opportunities.

Pam Swain, CEO for the British Association of Dental Nurses, said: ‘Dental nurses visited the BADN stand in their droves, to join, renew or find out about the new BADN website/CRM system. IT & Comms Administrator Adam Skalski demonstrated to members how to log in and set up their member accounts on his trusty iPad, whilst I answered visitors’ questions and handed out BADN bags containing a BADN savings duck, BADN pen and membership badge to members and those joining at the stand.

The Dental Nurses’ Forum, co-organised by BADN and chaired by BADN President Hazel Coey, was very well attended over the two days. Presentations at the Forum included BADN’s own Jane Dalgarno on The Use of Mentoring to Support Professional Development(including information on BADN’s soon-to-be-announced mentoring platform), and President-elect Jacqui Elsden on Dental Nursing: What Lies Ahead? Other speakers included Isis Buffonge, of UCL Eastman, on Effective Implant Nursing; Max O’Neill – who stood in at the last moment – on Dealing with Difficult People;Simon Wright on Human Error;HEE’s Mike Wheeler on New Routes of Progression for the Dental Teamand the GDC on Moving Upstream/Shifting the Balance.

The BADN is staging its National Dental Nursing Conference, to be held on 1-2 November 2019 at the Oxford Spires Hotel.

For more information, visit www.badn.org.uk.

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