Responsibilities when providing extended duties to GDC scope of practice

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Outline of responsibilities when providing extended duties to GDC scope of practice 3
Outline of messages recommended by ‘delivering better oral health’ toolkit................5
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Outline of responsibilities when providing extended duties to GDC scope of practice
According to the General Dental Council (GDC) scope of practices it is clearly
recommended that dental professionals can only undertake dental or oral health
related task, treatment type, make decisions with respect to patient care, only if they
are competent with respect to requisite skills, have necessary education, are
indemnified, and trained properly. In order to accomplish the extended role for
patient care, nurses can avail the opportunity of enrolling into courses for developing
their skills and gaining experiences. The GDC scope of practice has allows dental
nurses to gain skills with respect to oral health education and promotion, assisting in
the patient treatment with special needs or orthodontic or conscious sedation
condition. In addition to this other skills that can be gained include radiograph,
cephalograph, X-ray, and application of topical anesthetics mouth guard and
bleaching tray (Barber et al. 2018). Extended duties also allows learning of fluoride
varnish application with reference to dentist prescription or as direct practice (in
cases where nurses are registered or licensed). However, dental nurses are not
responsible for making disease diagnosis as well as treatment plan. GDC also
recommended that in order to make extended duties as a core part of practice team,
the dental care institution must develop practice business plan. The scope of this
practice policies must have explicit mission statement that aims to develop dental
nursing competencies and promote oral health in the community.
The extended duty course for fluoride varnish assessment of practice models as first
step. Here the responsibilities include scope which ensures that the registered
nurses have underpinned knowledge and skills with reference to (Henderson, 2017):
 Utility of topical fluoride application for adults and children
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