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Angela Cake
Akosua Adu-Nyamekye
Regular meetings are held with nursing staff and the clinical director for the department. Our senior nurse is also the lead for dental health education.
In this department registered dental nurses and registered general nurses work together, although there are responsibilities specific to each professional group.
The department at the John Radcliffe Hospital has ten dental nurses. Their main role is assisting the orthodontists and surgeons, preparing any materials which may be required.
Their training consists of a part-time course at college for one year with a national examination to be sat at the end of the course.
Our team includes some dental nurses trained in taking dental X-rays and a sedation-trained nurse.