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Scope of practice:
dental nurses
An up-to-date focus on the scope of practice of one group of dental care
professionals (DCPs), as described by the General Dental Council (GDC).
describes the areas in which you have who provide clinical and other support to assessment carried out by other registrants
the knowledge, skills and experience registrants and patients. As a dental nurse, you ¾ Prepare, mix and handle dental bio-materials
to practise safely and effectively in the can undertake the following if you are trained, ¾ Provide chairside support to the operator
best interests of patients. The GDC’s full competent and indemnified: during treatment
document on the scope of practice of ¾ Prepare and maintain the clinical ¾ Keep full, accurate and contemporaneous
all dental registrants, published in 2013 environment, including the equipment patient records
and updated in 2017, can be found at ¾ Carry out infection prevention and control ¾ Prepare equipment, materials and patients for
https://www.gdc-uk.org/professionals/ procedures to prevent physical, chemical and dental radiography
registers/reg-types. microbiological contamination in the surgery ¾ Process dental radiographs
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FEATURE
Male
769
Scotland
Female 6,227
57,104
‘DENTAL NURSES CAN APPLY FLUORIDE VARNISH Table 1: Dental care professionals with
more than one title (March 2018)
Clinical Dental
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OR DIRECT AS PART OF A STRUCTURED Technician