DENTAL ASSITANT
DY DENTAL CLINIC
Total des années d'expérience :14 years, 2 Mois
Work Description of Dental Nurse
•Preparing and maintaining dental instruments, supplies and equipment.
•Prepares, sterilizes, organizes, and sets up dental equipment, ensures that all dental instruments are cleaned, dated, and processed.
•Monitors and maintains dental equipment, such as compressors, evacuator systems, radiographic developing equipment, sterilizers, and light curing units.
•Provides chairside assistance to dentists in performance of dental procedures, to include operative, preventive, periodontal, endodontic, prosthetic, and/or oral surgical procedures.
•Patient management during dental procedures.
•Responsible for handing items to dentist.
•Suction the patient’s mouth to keep free of excessive saliva.
•Take impressions of the client's teeth with moldable material and make casts.
•Placing topical medications.
•Preparation of dental materials, cements, composite, impression materials, etc.
•Apply fluoride to the pediatric client.
•Polishing the teeth to remove stains and soft deposits.
•Removing excess cement the mouth after procedures.
•Take panoramic x-ray and develop x-rays.
•Develops and processes dental radiographs; assists in the monitoring and maintenance of radiation safety procedures and protocols.
•Orders and maintains inventories of dental clinic supplies.
•Maintains dental laboratory slips.
•Responsible for sending and receiving materials from laboratory.
Work Description of Dental Nurse
•Preparing and maintaining dental instruments, supplies and equipment.
•Prepares, sterilizes, organizes, and sets up dental equipment, ensures that all dental instruments are cleaned, dated, and processed.
•Monitors and maintains dental equipment, such as compressors, evacuator systems, radiographic developing equipment, sterilizers, and light curing units.
•Provides chairside assistance to dentists in performance of dental procedures, to include operative, preventive, periodontal, endodontic, prosthetic, and/or oral surgical procedures.
•Patient management during dental procedures.
•Responsible for handing items to dentist.
•Suction the patient’s mouth to keep free of excessive saliva.
•Take impressions of the client's teeth with moldable material and make casts.
•Placing topical medications.
•Preparation of dental materials, cements, composite, impression materials, etc.
•Apply fluoride to the pediatric client.
•Polishing the teeth to remove stains and soft deposits.
•Removing excess cement the mouth after procedures.
•Take panoramic x-ray and develop x-rays.
•Develops and processes dental radiographs; assists in the monitoring and maintenance of radiation safety procedures and protocols.
•Orders and maintains inventories of dental clinic supplies.
•Maintains dental laboratory slips.
•Responsible for sending and receiving materials from laboratory.
Work Description of Dental Nurse
•Preparing and maintaining dental instruments, supplies and equipment.
•Prepares, sterilizes, organizes, and sets up dental equipment, ensures that all dental instruments are cleaned, dated, and processed.
•Monitors and maintains dental equipment, such as compressors, evacuator systems, radiographic developing equipment, sterilizers, and light curing units.
•Provides chairside assistance to dentists in performance of dental procedures, to include operative, preventive, periodontal, endodontic, prosthetic, and/or oral surgical procedures.
•Patient management during dental procedures.
•Responsible for handing items to dentist.
•Suction the patient’s mouth to keep free of excessive saliva.
•Take impressions of the client's teeth with moldable material and make casts.
•Placing topical medications.
•Preparation of dental materials, cements, composite, impression materials, etc.
•Apply fluoride to the pediatric client.
•Polishing the teeth to remove stains and soft deposits.
•Removing excess cement the mouth after procedures.
•Take panoramic x-ray and develop x-rays.
•Develops and processes dental radiographs; assists in the monitoring and maintenance of radiation safety procedures and protocols.
•Orders and maintains inventories of dental clinic supplies.
•Maintains dental laboratory slips.
•Responsible for sending and receiving materials from laboratory.
Work Description of Dental Nurse
•Preparing and maintaining dental instruments, supplies and equipment.
•Prepares, sterilizes, organizes, and sets up dental equipment, ensures that all dental instruments are cleaned, dated, and processed.
•Monitors and maintains dental equipment, such as compressors, evacuator systems, radiographic developing equipment, sterilizers, and light curing units.
•Provides chairside assistance to dentists in performance of dental procedures, to include operative, preventive, periodontal, endodontic, prosthetic, and/or oral surgical procedures.
•Patient management during dental procedures.
•Responsible for handing items to dentist.
•Suction the patient’s mouth to keep free of excessive saliva.
•Take impressions of the client's teeth with moldable material and make casts.
•Placing topical medications.
•Preparation of dental materials, cements, composite, impression materials, etc.
•Apply fluoride to the pediatric client.
•Polishing the teeth to remove stains and soft deposits.
•Removing excess cement the mouth after procedures.
•Take panoramic x-ray and develop x-rays.
•Develops and processes dental radiographs; assists in the monitoring and maintenance of radiation safety procedures and protocols.
•Orders and maintains inventories of dental clinic supplies.
•Maintains dental laboratory slips.
•Responsible for sending and receiving materials from laboratory.
Work Description of Staff Nurse:
1. Receives endorsement from the out-going shift.
*Identifies, assesses and sets priorities during the shift.
*Identifies and prepares patients who will undergo special treatments, procedures and surgery.
*Checks on patients and other special equipments.
*Check on patients with unusual complaints and unusual symptoms to be referred immediately.
2. Makes nursing rounds.
*Checks patients condition, level of consciousness.
*Checks neuro vital signs.
*Checks IV fluids, IV site and other fluids.
*Gives special instructions to patients/watchers.
*Maintain patency of NGT, Foley Catheter and Endotracheal Tubes.
3. Check on the accuracy and the completeness of medication cards on the Kardex.
*Segregates the medication cards of the patient who are on NPO or who will undergo special treatments and procedures.
*Identifies food and drug allergies of patients.
*Follow-ups the drugs to the patients (oral, intravenous, intramuscular and topical).
*Refers and follow-ups the intravenous solutions and for the incorporation of intravenous additives and correct intravenous calibrations.
*Request medicines needed for the care of patients and check the medicines sent by the Pharmacy.
*Checks on treatment that are to be continued, discontinued or on hold.
*Checks on accurate and complete charting of medication and treatment administered to the patient.
*Administer emergency drugs
4. Assists the physicians during the rounds
*Secures patients or family consent for the treatment and surgery to be done to the patient.
*Prepares materials for special procedures done at bedside.
*Assists in dressing.
5. Carries out doctor's orders on the Kardex and makes sure that it is carried out.
*Follow-ups laboratory exams and results.
*Makes medication cards and writes entries on the medication sheet.
*Prepares and follow-up IV fluids.
6. Responsible for accurate and complete charting and endorsement to the next shift.
