Lou Hatton
Future Career Options
by Louise Hatton - Thursday, 9 May 2013, 3:58 PM
 

Did you know that once you become a qualified dental nurse the world is your oyster!

Not only do you become a GDC registered dental Professional but the door opens to a range of different career oportunities. 

Whilst some may be content to stay as they are once qualified there are lots of post graduate qualifications that can be obtained such as radiography, sedation nursing, oral health promotion and special care dental nursing. Not forgetting the additional duties like rubber dam placement, fluoride application amongst others.

For those of you that would like to go even further the career path can lead you back to university to become a dental hygienist or therapist some dental  nurses even train to become a dental laboratory technichian. 

There is also the management side of things as well for example you may become a senior nurse, practice manager or even group/area manager. 

And of course there is the training side of things as well. You can gain teaching qualifications enabling you to teach other members of the team a range of different qualifications and also deliver CPD.

Lastly there are many other fields such as dental software training, dental sales, consulting and many more.

Who would have thought becoming a qualified dental nurse could open the doors for so many opportunities!

 

 
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Re: Future Career Options
by Sam Pearson - Tuesday, 25 August 2015, 6:58 PM
 

When I qualify as a dental nurse, I plan to use my qualification as a stepping stone to get into more qualifications at college to move onto something else in healthcare!

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Re: Future Career Options
by Fabiana Nery Pardhanani - Wednesday, 14 October 2015, 11:15 AM
 
It was a very good point made! Dental nurses sometimes don't realise how many opportunities cold become available after your qualification. Once you have done it, you could have a variety of specialisation. I am still fascinated as how much you can learn from this career and from this course. It will depend where would you like to go, however the different areas can take you to a new health care world.