How to Develop Your Career in Dental Nursing

✍ Scribed by Janine Brooks, Fiona Ellwood

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 158
• Series: How To (Dentistry)
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How to Develop Your Career in Dental Nursing

Documents the challenges, benefits, and progression opportunities of a career in dental nursing

How to Develop Your Career in Dental Nursing provides practical information on how to progress your career in dental nursing. Guidance is included throughout, and the reader should use the book to make informed decisions and conduct further research for the benefit of their own career. The book considers the historical context, along with reviewing the current position of dental nursing and considering the future of the field, all with the overarching theme of helping dental nurses further their career in modern dentistry.

Topics covered include:

• Dental Nursing from a profession and social context, as well as gender perspectives
• Differences in dental nursing worldwide
• Formal and informal training and education
• Pros and cons for dental nurses and dentistry as the profession has developed
• The impact of working in a modern environment
• How dental nurses can become agents for change
• Dental nursing as an academic versus vocational endeavor

Written by highly qualified authors, How to Develop Your Career in Dental Nursing is an invaluable resource for Dental Nurses, as well as students beginning their professional journey.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About the authors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Early history of dental nursing
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
Role of the world wars
Women in employment – twentieth and twenty-first centuries
The twenty-first century
Chapter 3 The rise of the profession
North America
New Zealand
Canada
United Kingdom
Republic of Ireland
Europe
Australia
Worldwide
Chapter 4 Training and qualifications
Professional registration and dental nurse qualifications
Dental nursing qualifications
Additional duties
Impact of registration and education
Continuing professional development (CPD)
Reflective practitioner
Chapter 5 Career development
Clear understanding of self
Knowledge of the dental landscape
Conditions of success
Lead roles
Other opportunities
Examples of career pathways
Shape of your career
Developing a professional portfolio
Curriculum vitae design
Promoting yourself
Chapter 6 The future
The world outside dentistry
The future of dentistry
The profession of dental nursing
Individual dental nurses
Thoughts on future training
The advanced dental nurse practitioner
Twenty-first century skills
Examples to build your working portfolio and progress your career
Chapter 7 Discussion and conclusions
Appendix 1 Timeline of important events in dentistry in the UK
Index
EULA