Trainee Dental Nurse Review

My day-to-day role consists of assisting in the decontamination room, helping out the receptionists and assisting the clinicians in practice ,seeing a wide variety of patients , providing care within their best interests. Other roles that I do on occasion are helping putting back stock, and cleaning the premises.

Skills that i have developed since are: learning how to talk to patients from different backgrounds adapting the language used, as well as being able to maintain a friendly rapport with patients and work colleagues. As well as this it has widen my knowledge in medical and biological sciences.

I throughly enjoyed my programme as the team and support that you receive is immaculate, as they are always there to help you when you are finding part or your off-the-job or on-the-job training difficult.

The programme overall is very well organised, as you have a set lesson plans with workbooks to complete to help you to keep you on track until your reach your EPA for the best possible outcomes.

From my employer they are always willing to provide support whether that would be extra time out of surgery to sit down with qualified nurses to help me understand a topic, or putting me into surgery with a dentist for a particular Tx that i’ve wanted to see.

From my training provider the support has been wonderful. My assessor has always been more than willing to answer any questions that i have had or help when i have been struggling within my course.

It has helped me to perform better as they teach you the best ways to act professionally in the work environment, for every outcome to be the best one possible.

On occasion our manager would offer pilate classes after work to just give everyone nice time together, and to just help maintain overall fitness. It also provides team bonding in particular, as you spend time with your colleagues outside of working hours.

Yes

The support that you get from the course providers and assessors is very helpful, and the overall course is very enjoyable and they make lessons entertaining and interactive which is far more enjoyable instead of staring at a computer screen watching the slides shows.

Advise that I would give to someone would be: don’t be afraid to make mistakes or ask questions, as there’s no such thing as a silly question, to have a positive outlook throughout the course, and to learn as much as possible to make the course enjoyable and more fun for you as the learner as you can never learn too much in dental nursing !