is becoming a dental nurse by working in a surgery and doing day release college a good idea?
or is full time college better, i saw a job on job centre plus for trainee dental nurse no experience required and day realease college, 40 hrs a week in all minimum wage. wud that be better cos u get paid and trained?
When I trained years ago I was on a full time course, which was 2 days placement and 2 days college.
A lot of girls work full time and attend night classes for theory, this i think would be very hard going esp when working a 40 hour week
Day release may be a good idea, as long as you were going to get to classes even when the surgery was short staffed.
Depends on how much you would be paid etc, would you be paid for 40 hours or just 4 days? remember you would get funding from college.
Also depends on if you were doing the NvQ or the National Certificate qualification, again both require a lot of study to pass exams etc,.
Apply for the job and see how you get on, also look at local training centres. Not sure what area you are in but jobs with the health board are usually good, and i know here in scotland out trainees start on £13000 for a 2 year training contract, working 37.5 hours a week with 27 days holiday, they attend classes on a day release basis.
Good Luck! Dental Nursing is fab, and can often be just the begining of a dental career, so many options for further development!
yea of course training and a wage in my day u only get 60 a week so count ur self lucky and go for it
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It all depends on what you want to do for a living.I’m not exactly sure about a dental nurse.There’s dental assistants that prepare the patient for the dentist and learn how to clean teeth and things like that, but if you want to do something in the medical field you need the schooling.If you need the money any type of medical knowledge ( including dental ) where you’d get to know the terminology and abbreviations,and some anatomy would help along with earning.
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Personally I don’t think going to college Full Time to train to become a dental nurse is practical.
Fair play, your going to learning, but I personally believe that nothing can prepare you for what it’s really like unless you have actually had 1st hand clinical experience and you have actually worked along side a dentist and members of the public
When I first started as Trainee Dental Nurse (many years ago) I was trained in House, after 2 years i felt confident enough to enrol onto a college course, I had first hand experience and a better understanding of all the Dental Terms due to in house training.
I’d seriously consider applying for the trainee position and do day release, that way your killing 2 birds with one stone, your being paid whilst being trained at work and your gaining more in depth knowledge at college in order to gain your Qualification!
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Me-Dental Nurse
When I trained years ago I was on a full time course, which was 2 days placement and 2 days college.
A lot of girls work full time and attend night classes for theory, this i think would be very hard going esp when working a 40 hour week
Day release may be a good idea, as long as you were going to get to classes even when the surgery was short staffed.
Depends on how much you would be paid etc, would you be paid for 40 hours or just 4 days? remember you would get funding from college.
Also depends on if you were doing the NvQ or the National Certificate qualification, again both require a lot of study to pass exams etc,.
Apply for the job and see how you get on, also look at local training centres. Not sure what area you are in but jobs with the health board are usually good, and i know here in scotland out trainees start on £13000 for a 2 year training contract, working 37.5 hours a week with 27 days holiday, they attend classes on a day release basis.
Good Luck! Dental Nursing is fab, and can often be just the begining of a dental career, so many options for further development!
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Qualified Dental Nurse
Oral Health Educator
Triage Dental Nurse for out of hours emergencies
Assessor for NVQ Student nurses